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Navajo Nation, reeling from coronavirus, focuses attention on elections – Sand Hills Express
BY: CONOR FINNEGAN AND MARTHA RADDATZ, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — When the pandemic hit the Navajo Nation this spring, it came fast and furious — spreading “like wildfire,” according to its president Jonathan Nez, and devastating communities long left impoverished…
BY: CONOR FINNEGAN AND MARTHA RADDATZ, ABC NEWS
(NEW YORK) — When the pandemic hit the Navajo Nation this spring, it came fast and furious — spreading “like wildfire,” according to its president Jonathan Nez, and devastating communities long left impoverished by years of systemic racism and neglect.
But the virus and efforts to contain it have now impacted the Navajo on another critical front — voting.
With the 2020 election less than two months away, the community is rallying to register vot…
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