Pascua Yaqui Tribe seeks early voting site on reservation
Associated PressPHOENIX — A judge will hear arguments Monday over whether to order an election official in southern Arizona to open an early voting and ballot collection operation for the Nov. 3 election on a Native American reservation on the edge of Tucson that hasn’t had an early voting site since 2016. While there are no early voting sites on the reservation, there will be one polling place open on Election Day at the tribe’s wellness center. Rodriguez had said the reservation’s earlier early voting site had only 44 votes in the 2016 general election, didn’t have adequate security for storing ballots and didn’t comply with polling place requirements within the Americans with Disabilities Act because its lobby couldn’t hold more than a few voting booths. Her lawyers said there’s no evidence showing the absence of an early voting site on the reservation during this election cycle has had a disparate impact on Yaquis to cast ballots.
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