# North Dakota Voter ID Law Bars Native Americans from Polls **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [October 12, 2018, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-dakota-voter-id-law-bars-native-americans-from-polls/822839 "2018-10-12T05:28:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 32
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2018, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-dakota-voter-id-law-bars-native-americans-from-polls/822839/32 "2018-10-12T17:15:02Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > Even if someone like Bricker can make a legal argument in defense of the decision, it’s impossible to ignore the intent behind such efforts on the part of the GOP. IANAL but I believe the rationale is that they need your address to ensure you vote in the proper local elections. I am a huge proponent of Voter ID especially as a voter ID law would have prevented from someone else voting under my name in one election BUT this case is not what Voter ID laws should do. They should merely be a means to ascertain that you are who you claim to be. That’s it. > [@RickJay](#): > > Stuff like this never seems to come up in states controlled by Democratic legislatures and governors. I wonder why that is? Because Dems don’t care who votes: citizens, non-citizens, convicted felons, people committing voter fraud, people who can’t poke a sharp piece of metal through pre-perforated paper, etc. In fact, the ONLY time I can think of that Dems opposed voting rights was in 2000 when they tried to exclude absentee votes from military personnel in Florida. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/north-dakota-voter-id-law-bars-native-americans-from-polls/822839)._