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[[crossed-out]]to be allowed to vote[[/crossed-out]] required to be allowed to vote. But the Attorney General said Accordingly Indians who live on the reservations are not entitled to vote in Utah and a Board of County Commissionars in Utah has no duty to provide them with [[crossed-out]]county[[/crossed-out]]voting facilities. Indians living off of the reservation may of course register and vote in the voting district in which they reside the same as other citizens. So, we had this question squarely raised on March 23 and of course the county clerk was instructed by the Attorney General to not set up voting facilities for the Indians becasue if they just lived on the reservation and had never acquired a residence off of the reservation prior to the time that they had lived on the reservation, then they weren't entitled to vote. Now you see how important. that is to us. It kind of strikes at the pride of some of us, we have felt pretty good about the way Indiansof this state have been treated. We have found that that is by the local citizens. [[crossed-out]] There have [[/crossed-out]] We have, of course, [[crossed-out]] been [[/crossed-out]] had many injustices for which we have fought to get proper redress but at the same time there were those of us who pointed with some pride as to what happend, as a matter of fact at the issuance upon this first opinion Attorney General Chad issued that statement and later I appeared before Attorney General Clinton Burns, when someone else raised this question, who went into this [[crossed-out]]question[[/crossed-out]] matter and just simply sent a letter saying there had already been [[crossed-out]]an opinion[[/crossed-out]] ruled on by Attorney General ?    and so we had no difficulty in allowing the Indians to vote up to this time. Now, we do have an important question, and that question is, Are we going to have this kind of statute. There are two ways to attack it: 1st of all, the way we are atacking it at the present time, by going to the Supreme Court of this state. Now this a kind of [[crossed-out]] an answer[[/crossed-out]] case that you don't have to start in the lower courts and work your way up, the way you do in an ordinary law suit. [[crossed-out]]Tts[[/crossed-out]] The statute specifically provides that [[crossed-out]] this kine we may[[/crossed-out]] in a case of this kind we may [[crossed-out]]present[[/crossed-out]] commence our action directly in the Supreme Court of the state of Utah and having commenced it that way, if three judges confer, they can issue a writ and cite the parties in and procede on the action in that matter. And that is precisely what has been done.

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