I returned to Arizona in 2020 because my mentor, Peterson Zah, former president of the Navajo Nation, asked me to take a life-changing phone call with local leaders working to organize Navajo voters. That call brought me home to eventually found a nonprofit, Arizona Native Vote.

Four years later I found myself driving in the snow around sunset on the Friday after the 2024 election. I had a list of people in my home community of Kayenta whose ballots needed to be “cured” before the Sunday deadline. Curing is done when mailed ballots are rejected because maybe the voter forgot to sign the outer envelope, or their signature didn’t match the one on file.

Since most homes on Navajo Nation do not have a street number, the process ran........

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