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\r\n<\/p>\r\nThis story is a project of the Indigenously newsletter. Subscribe today<\/a>.<\/EM><\/strong>\r\n <\/p>\r\nFor Native voters, this election year has dealt us one disappointing data dilemma after another. \r\n <\/p>\r\nIt began weeks leading up to Election Day when journalists casually cast us off as a \u201clow voter turnout\u201d population but with little modern evidence to support these claims. On Election Night, we were quickly othered into a \u201cSomething Else\u201d category<\/a> with nearly zero attention paid to the small but significant impact Native voters, everywhere, have had in past elections. \r\n <\/p>\r\nAnd now, in an attempt to seemingly correct these disparities, the headlines read one thing \u2014 \u201cNative Voters\u201d \u2014 while the content is overwhelmingly fixated on another: the Navajo Nation.\r\n <\/p>\r\n With a lot of talk about Native voting in Arizona. I thought I would share 2 maps. The left is a map showcasing all 22 tribes in the state. The right an updated 2020 voting results maps by precinct. This give you an idea of how Indigenous communities voted in the 2020 election. https:\/\/t.co\/scrWENDVO2<\/p>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n\t <\/P>\r\nThe Arizona Indigenous electorate, overall, should be recognized for helping flip Arizona from red to blueish this historic election year \u2014 only the second time in 68 years the state has favored a Democratic president. It\u2019s emblematic of the small but significant swing vote<\/a> that Natives have represented this year and in the past.\r\n <\/p>\r\nThis election cycle, Arizona was one of the last states to be called by a majority of news outlets, despite early announcements made on Election Night from the Associated Press and Fox News, both declaring Biden the winner. Most newsrooms waited longer than a week \u2014 late Thursday, November 12 \u2014 to make the call.\r\n <\/p>\r\nIn that holding pattern, a tribal newspaper, a Native professor, a former presidential hopeful, and a Labor Secretary under Bill Clinton were among those eager to frame demographic analysis of Arizona\u2019s voter turnout in ways that inflated Native American support for Biden \u2014 97 percent \u2014 and with particular credit to Navajo voters. The data discrepancy that went wildly viral was ultimately fact-checked by USA Today<\/a>.\r\n <\/p>![\"Shondiin](\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/16\/emj19tluyaa6o9r.jpg\")
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