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The State Senate Affairs Committee has advanced a bill making it easier for tribal members to register to vote.

That your officials are going to stand outside, polling stations with laptops with access to rural address software and share a database of voter names. is this -- how do you plan on executing this? and is this something that you're working with others to execute? >> well, first of all, thanks for having me, and it's an honor to be on your program today. >> we're happy to have you. >> and we are working with many of our tribal officials, we're working with other -- the other tribes in the states, and we're in communication with the state of north dakota, so we want to -- we want to just make i...

Voters to provide an i.d. that shows a residential address. and it specifically bans a using a p.o. box. the problem is that many native americans use p.o. boxes for their mailing addresses, as scotus blog writes, quote, native americans often live on reservations or in other rural areas where people don't have street addresses. even if they do, lawyers for the challengers argue, those addresses are frequently not included on tribal i.d.s. north dakota ranks as one of the key senate races that could cost current democratic senator her . na native americans were key in delivering heitkamp's las...

Problem that most voters who are in this situation will face or just a handful? how big of a problem is it? >> well, we have quite a few that don't have the physical address on their i.d.s, but we are a sovereign nation, so we have a tribal i.d. the tribal i.d.s are the exact same size, weights, and all the requirements of the state i.d.s of north dakota. so now we just need to get the people out and let them know that the physical addresses need to be on the state i.d.s for state elections and we are going to provide every opportunity for our people to come out and let their voices be heard a...

Decide control of the senate. a new voter i.d. law is in effect that could disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters. revamping the state's voting requirements. the governor signed the new ball into law in 2017. the law didn't create an i.d. card but instead listed information that needs to appear the person's identification so they can vote, the nail, a residential address and date of birth. pretty standard, right? for north dakota's native population who live on one of the five tribal reservations, there are few, if any, residential addresses. most people there use post office boxes which c...