Wisconsin
Related: About this forumRigged: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump (And possibly handed him the whole election)
Rigged: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to TrumpAnd possibly handed him the whole election.
ARI BERMAN NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 ISSUE
You cant say Andrea Anthony didnt try. A 37-year-old African American woman with an infectious smile, Anthony had voted in every major election since she was 18. On November 8, 2016, she went to the Clinton Rose Senior Center, her polling site on the predominantly black north side of Milwaukee, to cast a ballot for Hillary Clinton. Voting is important to me because I know I have a little, teeny, tiny voice, but that is a way for it to be heard, she said. Even though its one vote, I feel it needs to count.
Shed lost her drivers license a few days earlier, but she came prepared with an expired Wisconsin state ID and proof of residency. A poll worker confirmed she was registered to vote at her current address. But this was Wisconsins first major election that required voterseven those who were already registeredto present a current drivers license, passport, or state or military ID to cast a ballot. Anthony couldnt, and so she wasnt able to vote.
The poll worker gave her a provisional ballot instead.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/voter-suppression-wisconsin-election-2016/
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)That's why Republican Sec. of States have been going nuts purging targeted people from voter rolls while implementing ridiculous voter ID requirements.
They strip away thousands of eligible votes before a single ballot is cast without challenge.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)I hate republicans.
underpants
(183,168 posts)Thanks for the article
Botany
(70,700 posts)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 states 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 Anthonys 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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But still the media pushes the tired meme that HRC lost Wisconsin because show a poor candidate.
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KPN
(15,695 posts)Gothmog
(146,240 posts)czarjak
(11,380 posts)ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)I WISH we had the SCOTUS decision on gerrymandering. This isn't the same detail, but it's the same issue -- the sacred right of citizens of a democracy to vote and have their votes count.
Me.
(35,454 posts)is malignantly insufferable
sheshe2
(84,167 posts)herding cats
(19,569 posts)These laws are all about suppressing the vote, preferably in Democratic districts.
The Polack MSgt
(13,210 posts)brer cat
(24,694 posts)and they pull out all the stops. Gerrymandering, voter suppression, too few locations in strong Democratic districts, etc. We have to fight on all fronts.
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