Judge Scuttles Last-Ditch Try By Indians To Block North Dakota’s Voter ID Law

(November 2, 2018, 10:48 AM EDT) -- BISMARCK, N.D. — While North Dakota’s voter ID law has caused a “litany of problems” for Native Americans trying to vote in the upcoming midterm election, it is too late in the game to change the rules and risk “further confusion and chaos on the eve of an election,” a federal judge ruled Nov. 1 in denying a tribe’s request for a restraining order (Spirit Lake Tribe, et al. v. Alvin Jaeger, No. 1:18-cv-00222, D. N.D., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 186993)....