Elections watchers prepare for Midterm complications - Native American Calling
Jaynie Parrish 3/10/26 - Originally posting on Instagram/Facebook
Thanks for having me on today's Native America Calling! Some top lines from me and our team at Arizona Native Vote.
https://www.nativeamericacalling.com/tuesday-march-10-2026-elections-watchers-prepare-for-midterm-complications/
+ Stay focused. --> Vote.
+ Do all that you can to vote this primary and midterm elections. Check your status and paperwork with your county recorder and election office.
+ Yes, it's chaotic times and it's meant to be this way, one distraction after another distraction. Stay focused on the vote. Help others in your family and community. Bring the clan with you in the process to verify and double-triple checking paperwork, addresses (physical/GPS coordinates and mailing), contact. info., ID's, etc.
+ If we want Native people to run and win, we have to support them and get them money to be competitive.
AZ Primary is coming up, July 21.
AZ Voter Registration Deadline is June 22.
++++AZ Pre Election Day Prep++++
+Let's use this as practice time and get ready for the Nov. General Midterm Election. Check-in with your county recorder on your voting status or go to my.arizona.vote TODAY to check online.
+ This is prep time, verify all the documents, addresse, citizenship, paperwork, with your county recorder
+ VOTE EARLY ; pay attention to your early voting days and take advantage of them
+ Get to know where your local ballot drop box is so when you get your early mail-in ballot (if you're signed up for one) you can immediately fill it out and drop it off. If you are not signed up to early vote, get on it. You may also drop off on Election Day, but we want to be prepared early.
-----+ If you send your early mail-in ballot back through the mail please make sure to send it far in advance, like two weeks or more, from the deadline because guess what mail is slow and folks trying to mess with our postal systems. It already takes much longer to mail and receive letters to and from the Navajo Nation as it is. So I highly recommend dropping it off early or sending it back 2 week or more before the deadline. Then follow up and sign up to get an email or text notification that it was received.
------+ If you have an early mail-in ballot like me, please make sure to sign the envelope and all the propers spaces. So many folks forget to do this and it may not count. Also verify your signature if needed. So many folks in '24 needed to verify their signature with the county and couldn't be reached and their vote didn't count. We have to verify, verify, verify.
+ If you are voting in-person, make you prep and plan now...what do you do? where do you go? who do you need to ask now for help, ride, ID, etc.
Voting or registering to vote should NOT be this hard, but there are folks who don't want us to vote and are doing everything they can so we give and don't bother or make up new ways to make it harder for our people. We can't be deterred, so let's up with all our voting superpowers and vote early.
