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Hillary Clinton on Trumps Election: There Are Lots of Questions About Its Legitimacy
In an exclusive interview with Mother Jones, Clinton says Russian interference and GOP voter suppression efforts may have cost her the presidency.
Ari Berman
Nov. 17, 2017 6:00 AM
A year after her defeat by Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton says there are lots of questions about its legitimacy due to Russian interference and widespread voter suppression efforts.
In an interview with Mother Jones in downtown Manhattan, Clinton said Russian meddling in the election was one of the major contributors to the outcome. The Russians used weaponized false information, she said, in a very successful disinformation campaign that wasnt just influencing voters, it was determining the outcome.
Republican efforts to make it harder to vote, through measures such as voter ID laws, shortened early voting periods, and new obstacles to registration, likewise contributed to the outcome, Clinton said. These moves received far less attention than Russian interference but arguably had a more demonstrable impact on the election result. According to an MIT study, more than 1 million people did not vote in 2016 because they encountered problems registering or at the polls. Clinton lost the election by a total of 78,000 votes in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
In a couple of places, most notably Wisconsin, I think it had a dramatic impact on the outcome, Clinton said of voter suppression.
Wisconsins new voter ID law required a Wisconsin drivers license or one of several other types of ID to cast a ballot. It blocked or deterred up to 23,000 people from voting in reliably Democratic Milwaukee and Madison, and potentially 45,000 people statewide, according to a University of Wisconsin study. Clinton lost the state by fewer than 23,000 votes. African Americans, who overwhelmingly supported Clinton, were more than three times as likely as whites not to vote because of the law.
It seems likely that it cost me the election [in Wisconsin] because of the tens of thousands of people who were turned away and the margin being so small, Clinton said.
Clinton says of voter suppression that in at least one state, It seems likely that it cost me the election.
She noted that this was the first presidential election in more than 50 years without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act after the Supreme Court gutted the law in a 2013 ruling, and 14 states had new voting restrictions in effect for the first time. So many places have really tried to make it as difficult as they possibly could for young people, for African Americans, the elderly, to vote, she said.
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Hillary Clinton on Trumps Election: There Are Lots of Questions About Its Legitimacy (Original Post)
babylonsister
Nov 2017
OP
Sanity Claws
(21,846 posts)1. It is about time someone started questioning the legitimacy
Of that thing as president.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)2. knr