From the White Mountain Independent Central:

Fourteen days after the last votes were cast, the Navajo Nation mounted a wide-ranging federal court challenge to the November 6 election. The Tribe asked that a federal judge halt the formal approval of the vote — called the certification of the election — until a ruling could be secured on the Tribe’s allegations that Apache, Navajo and Coconino counties had violated the rights of Navajo voters.

The basis of the Navajo Nation’s allegations are the counties’ procedures on “curing” incomplete early ballots. Curing a ballot is the procedure to fix an early ballot that otherwise would not be counted because it was either not signed or the signature did not match the signature the county has on file.

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