Navajo leaders say San Juan County voter rolls list about one of every four tribal members in the wrong political boundaries — so they might receive incorrect ballots despite court-ordered redrawing of them to end political domination of largely Republican whites over Democratic American Indians there.
They are asking the state for help fix problems quickly before the Nov. 6 election. The requests were made during meetings this week with legislators and the office of Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox, the state’s top election official.
But county officials dispute that the problem is that large or serious. They say they are working to resolve some issues created because a quarter of residents use post office boxes instead of street addresses — and say some coordinates supplied by Navajos are wrong too, and are in Russia or the Pacific ocean.