\u00a0The Associated Press \u00a001\/06\/2024 13:29 SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) \u2014 Voter participation advocate Theresa Pasqual traverses Acoma Pueblo with a stack of sample ballots in her car and applications for absentee ballots, handing them out at every opportunity ahead of New Mexico’s Tuesday primary. Residents of the tribal community’s original mesa-top \u201csky city\u201d that endured after the Spanish invasion in the late 1500s know firsthand the challenges voters have faced across Indian Country, where polling places are often hours away and restrictive voter laws and ID requirements only add to the barriers. It’s been a century now since an act of Congress granted citizenship to Native Americans, but advocates say that right bestowed in 1924 still hasn\u2019t translated into equal access to the ballot. Inequities are especially pronounced in remote… <\/p>\n
\u00a0The Associated Press \u00a001\/06\/2024 13:29 SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) \u2014 Voter participation advocate Theresa Pasqual traverses Acoma Pueblo with a stack of sample ballots in her car and applications for absentee ballots, handing them out at every opportunity ahead of New Mexico’s Tuesday primary. Residents of the tribal community’s original mesa-top \u201csky city\u201d that endured after the Spanish invasion in the late 1500s know firsthand the challenges voters have faced across Indian Country, where polling places are often hours away and restrictive voter laws and ID requirements only add to the barriers. It’s been a century now since an act of Congress granted citizenship to Native Americans, but advocates say that right bestowed in 1924 still hasn\u2019t translated into equal access to the ballot. Inequities are especially pronounced in remote... <\/p>\n