Voter ID laws could stop nearly 200,000 transgender people from voting in the 2022 midterms

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Voter ID laws could stop nearly 200,000 transgender people from voting in the 2022 midterms

That's roughly the entire population of Salt Lake City, Utah.

By Daniel Villarreal Friday, September 16, 2022

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/09/voter-id-laws-stop-nearly-200000-transgender-people-voting-2022-midterms/

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With Republicans threatening to reverse LGBTQ civil rights and generally undermine democratic elections, there’s a lot riding on the November midterms. But Voter ID laws across the nation could seriously impair transgender people from voting.

New research from The Williams Institute found that out of 878,300 eligible transgender voters in the U.S., as many as 203,700 could be blocked from voting because their government-issued IDs don’t reflect their gender identity — that’s nearly one-fourth of all eligible trans voters.

If a trans person arrives at a polling place with a government-issued ID containing an incorrect gender or name, they may be turned away by poll workers who think they’re trying to “impersonate” another individual.

203,700 disenfranchised trans voters is roughly the entire population of Salt Lake City, Utah; Little Rock, Arkansas; Amarillo, Texas; or Grand Rapids, Michigan, according to U.S. Census data.

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1. Just 44,000 combined total votes across 3 states (GA, AZ, WI) made the difference in the 2020

presidential election outcome.

Similarly, it was just 78,000 combined total votes across 3 states (MI, WI, PA) that decided the 2016 presidential election outcome.

537 votes in Florida decided the 2000 election, along with a stop-the-recount order from The Supremacist Court followed by a 5-4 decision.

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2. Dems need to mobilize them to get the proper ID. Sounds complicated..n/t

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3. This is why state offices are important, especially state Secretary of State.

We need to enable eligible voters. Republicans want to choose their voters, instead of being elected.