ICT NEWS: Troubles at the ballot box: Tribal IDs often aren’t accepted

Voters who hoped to use their tribal identification cards to cast their ballots are hitting roadblocks across the country, with some being turned away at the polls, election watchers told ICT.

Five states have officially declared that tribal IDs won’t be accepted – Ohio, Florida, Texas, South Carolina and West Virginia. But elsewhere, Native voters were also reporting problems using their tribal IDs.

“We’ve been receiving what feels like thousands of calls right now from people wanting to know what ID they can or can’t use,” according to Ceridwen Cherry, legal director at VoteRiders, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization with the mission of ensuring all citizens can exercise their freedom to vote.