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Navajo Nation Will Cancel 52,000 Voting Records as Part of Routine Purge

More than 52,000 members of the Navajo Nation are set to have their voting registration canceled for not voting in the 2014 presidential election or the 2016 chapter elections. The Navajo Times reports the purge is required by tribal law, but there is plenty of time to re-register before August. That’s when the nation will hold elections for its president and tribal council. The Times says one reason so many people register and then don’t vote is that registration is a requirement for applying for a tribal scholarship.

Austin Cope is a former Morning Edition host for KSJD and now produces work on a freelance basis for the station. He grew up in Cortez and hosted a show on KSJD when he was 10 years old. After graduating from Montezuma-Cortez High School in 2010, he lived in Belgium, Ohio, Spain, northern Wyoming, and Himachal Pradesh, India before returning to the Cortez area. He has a degree in Politics from Oberlin College in Ohio.