MINOT — For a long time, the League of Women Voters — which is frequently treated as a nonpartisan organization despite its pronounced ideological leanings — has invested itself in the idea that voter ID laws are voter suppression.

"The most widely used forms of voter suppression include discriminatory voter ID and proof-of-citizenship restrictions," the League states on its website.

"Not only are voter photo ID laws ineffective as means of combating voter fraud, but their main impact is that they promote voter suppression," is another statement the League makes.

Nichole Donaghy, the executive director of North Dakota Native Vote, is another longtime critic of voter ID laws, claiming North Dakota's laws suppressed Native American turnout in the 2018 U.S. Senate election between then-i

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