Ready for a little good news?

No, not that.

North Dakota was forced this week to allow Native American tribal IDs as acceptable identification at the voting booth, the Campaign Legal Center announced on Thursday.

The decision is the culmination of a four-year legal battle that began in January 2016, in response to the state's stringent voter ID law.

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Under the GOP-backed law, North Dakota residents were forced to present identification with a street address in order to vote. However, many Native Americans in the state live on reservations that do not even have residential addresses, thereby disenfranchising them from the ability to vote.

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On Thursday, the North Dakota Secretary of State agreed to enter a legally binding consent decree allowing tribal IDs as an acceptable for of voter ID. Further, according to the Campaign Legal Center, the state will work to distribute free non-driver IDs on every reservation in the state within 30 days of an election.

  American Independent

The US Congress should be on top of this kind of shit. People shouldn't have to bring costly lawsuits.

Oh, yeah. It's not Congress that's the problem. It's the Republicans in Congress.

Get the Republicans out of your local political positions. Don't let them get near a federal one.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.