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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums58-year-old black man made 7 trips in 2 states to get voter ID in Wisconsin & still couldn't vote
Prior to the 2016 election, Eddie Lee Holloway Jr., a 58-year-old African-American man, moved from Illinois to Wisconsin, which implemented a strict voter-ID law for the first time in 2016. He brought his expired Illinois photo ID, birth certificate, and Social Security card to get a photo ID for voting in Wisconsin, but the DMV in Milwaukee rejected his application because the name on his birth certificate read Eddie Junior Holloway, the result of a clerical error when it was issued. Holloway ended up making seven trips to different public agencies in two states and spent over $200 in an attempt to correct his birth certificate, but he was never able to obtain a voter ID in Wisconsin. Before the election, his lawyer for the ACLU told me Holloway was so disgusted he left Wisconsin for Illinois.
Holloways story was sadly familiar in 2016. According to federal court records, 300,000 registered voters, 9 percent of the electorate, lacked strict forms of voter ID in Wisconsin. A new study by Priorities USA, shared exclusively with The Nation, shows that strict voter-ID laws, in Wisconsin and other states, led to a significant reduction in voter turnout in 2016, with a disproportionate impact on African-American and Democratic-leaning voters. Wisconsins voter-ID law reduced turnout by 200,000 votes, according to the new analysis. Donald Trump won the state by only 22,748 votes.
The study compared turnout in states that adopted strict voter-ID laws between 2012 and 2016, like Wisconsin, to states that did not.
This reduction in turnout particularly hurt Hillary Clintons campaign.
Holloways story was sadly familiar in 2016. According to federal court records, 300,000 registered voters, 9 percent of the electorate, lacked strict forms of voter ID in Wisconsin. A new study by Priorities USA, shared exclusively with The Nation, shows that strict voter-ID laws, in Wisconsin and other states, led to a significant reduction in voter turnout in 2016, with a disproportionate impact on African-American and Democratic-leaning voters. Wisconsins voter-ID law reduced turnout by 200,000 votes, according to the new analysis. Donald Trump won the state by only 22,748 votes.
The study compared turnout in states that adopted strict voter-ID laws between 2012 and 2016, like Wisconsin, to states that did not.
While states with no change to voter identification laws witnessed an average increased turnout of +1.3% from 2012 to 2016, Wisconsins turnout (where voter ID laws changed to strict) dropped by -3.3%. If turnout had instead increased by the national no-change average, we estimate that over 200,000 more voters would have voted in Wisconsin in 2016.
This reduction in turnout particularly hurt Hillary Clintons campaign.
The lost voters skewed more African-American and more Democrat. For example, Wisconsins 2016 electorate was 6.1% more Republican, and 5.7% less Democrat, than the group of lost voters. Furthermore, the WI electorate was 3.7% more White and 3.8% less African American than the group of lost voters. This analysis suggests that the 200,000 lost voters would have both been more racially diverse and have voted more Democratic.
https://www.thenation.com/article/wisconsins-voter-id-law-suppressed-200000-votes-trump-won-by-23000/
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58-year-old black man made 7 trips in 2 states to get voter ID in Wisconsin & still couldn't vote (Original Post)
CousinIT
May 2017
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ck4829
(34,971 posts)1. But... but... I've been told it's no worse than being asked for your ID when you rent a movie
What gives?
oasis
(49,150 posts)2. Republicans turn a blind eye to Russian interference in our elections
while they target U.S. citizens for disenfranchisement. Making America Great Again.