Cherokee Nation misses election pact deadline

TULSA, Okla. -- The Cherokee Nation missed deadlines last week to notify roughly 1,200 descendants of black slaves once owned by the Oklahoma tribe's members that they could vote in a special election for their new chief and to send absentee ballots to some of them.

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