Navajo Nation allows members to vote after ballot shortage
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — FJ Thompson headed to a polling site to vote in the Navajo Nation election this week only to be told it had run out of ballots.
She and about 30 others waited outside the Breadsprings Chapter in northwestern New Mexico thinking someone might pull up with more. As it got darker and within a half-hour of the polling site closing, she decided to leave.
"I'm so disappointed," she said. "To me, the first thing I thought was, 'It's a rigged election. Somebody is not properly giving all the ballots they need for chapters.