"Voting Access for Native Americans"

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by Candice Norwood

Another lawsuit, brought by members of the Navajo Nation, seeks to change Arizona’s requirement that mail ballots must be received by 7 p.m. on Election Day in order to be counted. Native Americans instead want ballots postmarked by Nov. 3 and received by Nov. 13 to be counted, which a number of states have done to accommodate voting during the pandemic.

The plaintiffs’ complaint pointed to the fact that there is one post office for every 707 square miles on the reservation, and that only about 29 percent of tribe members own cars. The lawsuit does not mention access to polling places for the general election. Navajo County, Arizona, is a 9,960-square-mile area of which about 6,500 square miles are reservation land for three different tribes — Navajo Nation, Hopi and Fort Apache. Between the three tribes the county will have eight early voting sites and 20 Election Day voting sites located on reservation land, according to the county recorder’s office.

In response to the Arizona lawsuit, President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign filed a motion stating that extending the ballot return deadline “would sow confusion and delay in the administration of the upcoming General Election and all future elections.” The campaign did not return a request for comment on the lawsuit.

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Question
Use the passage to answer the question.

Why does the text leave information about the ballot collection deadline uncertain?

(1 point)
Responses

because the writer did not know the outcome at the time the text was written
because the writer did not know the outcome at the time the text was written

because the writer wants the reader to draw their own conclusions
because the writer wants the reader to draw their own conclusions

because the writer alludes to the outcome through an inference
because the writer alludes to the outcome through an inference

because the writer wants to persuade the reader to accept their opinion on the subject
because the writer wants to persuade the reader to accept their opinion on the subject

Answer 1

The correct response is:

because the writer did not know the outcome at the time the text was written