‘Disenfranchised and demobilized’: Native Americans face ballot box barriers in Arizona

Navajo Nation sued Apache county for a second time over alleged scramble to cure mail-in ballots - on top of other systemic hurdles like long lines and translation issues

The calls started coming in to the Arizona Native vote election protection hotline around 6am on election day.

Voters in Apache county, where a sizable chunk of the population is Dine, also known as Navajo, were seeing problems at the polls. One location was locked and several others were having trouble printing ballots, according to an affidavit filed in state court. As the day went on, voters reported hours-long waits and observers reported that people were leaving. A local judge would eventually agree to extend voting in nine precincts in the county by two hours.