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A RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE VI SECTION 3 OF THE CHEROKEE NATION CONSTITUTION, PURSUANT TO ARTICLE XV SECTION 2, CHANGING THE DATE BY WHICH REGISTERED VOTERS MAY CHOOSE TO VOTE IN A COUNCIL DISTRICT WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE CHEROKEE NATION
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WHEREAS, the Cherokee Nation, since time immemorial has exercised the sovereign rights of self-government on behalf of the Cherokee People; and
WHEREAS, the Cherokee Nation is a federally recognized Indian Nation with a historic and continual government to government relationship with the United States of America; and
WHEREAS, the Constitution of the Cherokee Nation was approved by Commission of Indian Affairs on April 23, 2002 and ratified by the Cherokee people on July 26, 2003, after said Constitution was revised at a duly called Convention of Delegates as provided by law; and,
WHEREAS, The Cherokee Nation Tribal Council is approved by Article XV Section 2 of the Constitution to proposed constitutional amendments when the same are approved by a majority of all members of the Council and submitted to the people for their approval at a general election, or at a special election called for that purpose by a two-thirds vote of the Council; and,
WHEREAS, All registered voters residing outside the boundaries of the Cherokee Nation, may, at the time of the first 2013 election to fill at-large Council seats, choose to continue to be registered to vote in the in a district in which they were previously registered within the boundaries of the Cherokee Nation. In the absence of making that choice, they shall be registered to vote at-large. Notwithstanding the above, citizens under the age of twenty-five (25) who reside outside the boundaries and who have not previously registered to vote, may make a single choice to register to vote in the district of their choice at the time of their first registration, failing which their registration shall be to vote at-large. All citizens age twenty-five (2...
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