The evidence from the passage that supports the author's explicit statement that many Native Americans on tribal reservations do not have a standard home address is the example given by Gabriella Cázares-Kelly. She explains that instead of a typical address, individuals might describe their location by saying, “I live off highway 86 by milepost 125 and a half.” This illustrates how nontraditional addresses can complicate matters for indigenous voters, particularly in the context of voting by mail.
For many Native Americans living on tribal reservations, a home address is not a standard number and street name, like 735 Bleeker Street. Instead, it’s a series of instructions.
“They’ll say something like, I live off highway 86 by milepost 125 and a half,” said Gabriella Cázares-Kelly, a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation and a Democratic candidate for Pima County recorder in Arizona.
These “nontraditional addresses” complicate things for indigenous voters during a time when the majority of states have moved to voting by mail to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus. A record number of Americans are expected to vote by mail in the November election. States like Nevada, Idaho, Montana and South Dakota, which all include large stretches of tribal land, held their primary elections almost entirely by mail.
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What evidence from the passage supports the author’s explicit statement that many Native Americans on tribal reservations do not…
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