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Would You Give Your Ballot to a Stranger?

Stateline: In the months leading up to this week’s registration deadline, Renee LaPlant has registered voters in the Blackfeet Nation in northwest Montana wherever she can: at grocery stores, public events or even at people’s homes on the Native American reservation. Each time she registers new voters, she asks whether they will want her to collect their completed ballot and turn it in to their local county clerk and recorder’s office or courthouse.

For many of these would-be voters, simple things such as getting stamps, fixing a flat tire or filling up enough gas to make it across this reservation — which is larger than Delaware — may be difficult, since more than a third of Blackfeet live below the poverty line.

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