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Áine MacDermot@isteintraum Or you could have, you know, done something about voter suppression in the last five decades https://t.co/WCE4dgI4PD
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Jorge Barba.@AriBerman investigates how voter ID laws like Wisconsin's impacted the 2016 election, may have tipped it to Trump. https://t.co/PhhHYBKBzY
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Sheryl A. McCoyWisconsin’s voter ID law blocked tens of thousands from polls & tipped state to Trump. My cover story @motherjones https://t.co/gkWVv321JN
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Tom Perran85% of those denied voter IDs by the Wisconsin DMV were black or Latino. https://t.co/NQkiVKIYW7
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William GunnRT @AriBerman: Wisconsin’s voter ID law blocked tens of thousands from polls & tipped state to Trump. My cover story @motherjones https://t…
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Garrett EastmanNot fake news: Wisconsin's voter ID law kept so many people from voting in 2016, it tipped their election result. https://t.co/7YfM9DH0dr
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19 Oct 17
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Donnan StoicovyWisconsin’s voter ID law blocked tens of thousands from polls & tipped state to Trump. My cover story @motherjones https://t.co/gkWVv321JN
WI voter participation dropped massively from 2012 to 2016. What changed? ID requirements created a barrier. https://t.co/127YataeyC
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dlgogmaYes, the election was rigged. Here's the proof. https://t.co/3hUvQYZiyP
Rigged: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump (Ari Berman / Mother Jones) https://t.co/jm4NNM6qa9 https://t.co/RoJ60JAsPR -
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On election night, Anthony was shocked to see Trump carry Wisconsin by nearly 23,000 votes. The state, which ranked second in the nation in voter participation in 2008 and 2012, saw its lowest turnout since 2000. More than half the state’s decline in turnout occurred in Milwaukee, which Clinton carried by a 77-18 margin, but where almost 41,000 fewer people voted in 2016 than in 2012. Turnout fell only slightly in white middle-class areas of the city but plunged in black ones. In Anthony’s old district, where aging houses on quiet tree-lined streets are interspersed with boarded-up buildings and vacant lots, turnout dropped by 23 percent from 2012. This is where Clinton lost the state and, with it, the larger narrative about the election.
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Three years after Wisconsin passed its voter ID law in 2011, a federal judge blocked it, noting that 9 percent of all registered voters did not have the required forms of ID. Black voters were about 50 percent likelier than whites to lack these IDs because they were less likely to drive or to be able to afford the documents required to get a current ID, and more likely to have moved from out of state.
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After the election, registered voters in Milwaukee County and Madison’s Dane County were surveyed about why they didn’t cast a ballot. Eleven percent cited the voter ID law and said they didn’t have an acceptable ID; of those, more than half said the law was the “main reason” they didn’t vote.
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that finding implies that between 12,000 and 23,000 registered voters in Madison and Milwaukee—and as many as 45,000 statewide—were deterred from voting by the ID law.
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It is very probable that between the photo ID law and the changes to voter registration, enough people were prevented from voting to have changed the outcome of the presidential election in Wisconsin.
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in 2016, turnout decreased by 1.7 percent in the three states that adopted stricter voter ID laws but increased by 1.3 percent in states where ID laws did not change
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Wisconsin’s turnout dropped 3.3 percent. If Wisconsin had seen the same turnout increase as states whose laws stayed the same, “we estimate that over 200,000 more voters would have voted in Wisconsin in 2016
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an estimated 16 million people—12 percent of all voters—encountered at least one problem voting in 2016.
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The 2016 election was the first presidential contest in more than 50 years without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act
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A month after the Supreme Court ruling, North Carolina passed a sweeping rewrite of its election laws, requiring voter IDs, cutting early voting, and eliminating same-day registration, among other changes, before the law was struck down in a federal court for targeting black voters “with almost surgical precision.” Ohio repealed the first week of early voting, when African Americans were five times likelier than whites to cast a ballot. Florida barred ex-felons from becoming eligible to vote after serving their time, preventing 1.7 million Floridians from voting in 2016, including 1 in 5 black voting-age residents. Arizona made it a felony for anyone other than a family member or caregiver to collect a voter’s absentee ballot, disproportionately hurting Latino and Native American voters in the state’s rural areas.
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions has reversed the Obama administration’s opposition to a restrictive voter ID law in Texas and voter purging in Ohio.
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Republican-controlled statehouses have already passed more voting restrictions in 2017 than they did in 2016 and 2015 combined.
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