Video of a police interrogation of an American Samoan man arrested in Alaska for voter misconduct shows that police were also confused about non-citizen nationals. “I thought people of American Samoa were U.S. citizens,” one state trooper said.
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In a small Alaska town, American Samoans face prosecution for voting in the only country they’ve ever known. They live in a limbo, created by colonial expansion, that now confuses even public officials—and has made them a new target for policing voter fraud.