‘The Fraud Has Been Institutionalized’: Inside The Partisan GOTV Efforts In Indian Country

These GOTV Campaigns Are Openly Partisan One of these groups is called Radicalize the Vote, a "GOTV campaign, led by indigenous womxn, that is building a unique, centralized indigenous registration list to get out the vote in record number during the COVID-10." The campaign is a partnership between NCAI-funded Native Vote and an organization called Seeding Sovereignty, which describes itself as "An Indigenous-led collective," that "Works to radicalize and disrupt colonized spaces through land, body, and food sovereignty work, community building, and cultural preservation." Seeding Sovereignty and Radicalize the Vote appear to share staff.

In Nevada, the state legislature not only expanded voting by mail, sending ballots to every eligible voter whether he or she requested one or not, it also passed a law in August that allowed for nearly unrestricted ballot-harvesting of absentee ballots.

The new law allowed non-family members, community health representatives, political parties, community organizers, and groups like Radicalize the Vote and the Nevada Native Vote Project to pick up absentee ballots from voters in tribal areas.

In Arizona, which Trump lost by three-tenths of a percentage point, Secretary of State Kate Hobbs' office set up special online voter registration URLs for select nonprofit groups back in May. The stated goal was to increase voter registration, but the online registrations were heavily promoted by left-wing groups like Native Vote.

The Biden campaign also worked closely with Native Vote and Radicalize the Vote, promoting the latter through its "Natives for Biden" social media account and often showing up to distribute campaign swag at polling precincts in cooperation with Native Vote and the Nevada Native Project.

Pratte told the Associated Press that Biden's razor-thin victory in Arizona couldn't have happened without the Native vote, and as a reporter for the Arizona Republic noted on Twitter, a side-by-side comparison of tribal areas and election results shows that Native communities across the state overlay almost perfectly with areas that voted Democrat.

The difference is that drastic changes to mail-in voting, enacted in the name of the pandemic, caused "The dam to burst in 2020." The groups that pushed for mass mail-in voting this year, Engelbrecht added, are the same groups that have been suing states for years to prevent them from updating voter rolls.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/25/the-fraud-has-been-institutionalized-inside-the-partisan-gotv-efforts-in-indian-country/