5/9/2023 0 Comments The Bidden by Ben LeechLast year, President Biden called on Congress to pass Senator Luján’s signature voting rights legislation, the Native American Voting Rights Act (NAVRA), to protect the sacred right to vote and ensure equal access to the electoral process for AI/ANs and voters living on Tribal lands. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) urged President Biden and the Indian Health Service (IHS) to select a pilot a voter registration site in New Mexico to increase American Indian and Alaskan Native (AI/AN) voter participation.įollowing President Biden’s “Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting,” this letter urges the Administration to continue their voter rights expansion efforts by establishing at least one IHS voter registration site in the IHS Albuquerque or Navajo Area or 638 facilities in New Mexico before the end of 2023. Senators Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S.
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