"Kelvin Kirkie, 18 years old, Josh Coleman, 20, and Matt St. John, 22, are cousins, enrolled at the United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, N.D., They are from the Crow Creek Sioux tribe, whose reservation is based in Fort Thompson, S.D. The town is in Buffalo County, ranked the nation’s poorest. “We’re the top of the bottom of the heap,” St. John said.

All three support Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Dressed in baggy hip-hop clothing, two with spikey haircuts, the students stood out from the suburban matrons and retired couples voting at the Prairie Rose Elementary School. But even though they come from out of state, North Dakota’s no-prior-registration-required voting rules let them step up and vote. The young men flashed their student ID cards for the UTTC campus, which is about three miles away. The UTTC mailing address is all they needed to establish residency in the precinct."

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Washington Wire: Three Young Cousins Cast Their First Votes (The Wall Street Journal 11/4)