Rigged: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump (And possibly handed him the whole election)

[workinclasszero]

Rigged: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump
And possibly handed him the whole election.
ARI BERMAN NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 ISSUE

You can’t say Andrea Anthony didn’t 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 it’s one vote, I feel it needs to count.”

She’d lost her driver’s 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 Wisconsin’s first major election that required voters—even those who were already registered—to present a current driver’s license, passport, or state or military ID to cast a ballot. Anthony couldn’t, and so she wasn’t 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]

1. GOP: Mission Accomplished

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]

3. Winning the election before the first ballot is cast

I hate republicans.

[underpants]

2. They've been at this for a good 60 years or so

Thanks for the article

[Botany]

4. From the article

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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But still the media pushes the tired meme that HRC lost Wisconsin because show a poor candidate.

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[KPN]

5. This stuff makes me angry.

[Gothmog]

6. The GOP can only win by suppressing the vote

[czarjak]

7. If you can't beat 'em, cheat 'em...

[ehrnst]

8. K&R

[Iliyah]

9. Yep!

[Hortensis]

10. Worked for this election, but so blatant MAY help cost them the ballgame.

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.]

11. The Entire Hindrance/Steal Your Right Class

is malignantly insufferable

[sheshe2]

12. K&R

[herding cats]

13. Yep.

These laws are all about suppressing the vote, preferably in Democratic districts.

[The Polack MSgt]

14. Kick and Rec nt

[brer cat]

15. The republicans can only win by cheating

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.