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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsClinton on Trump 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
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 votersit was determining the outcome.
Republican efforts to make it harder to votethrough measures such as voter ID laws, shortened early voting periods, and new obstacles to registrationlikewise 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. .................
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 votersit was determining the outcome.
Republican efforts to make it harder to votethrough measures such as voter ID laws, shortened early voting periods, and new obstacles to registrationlikewise 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. .................
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Clinton on Trump Election: There Are Lots of Questions About Its Legitimacy (Original Post)
L. Coyote
Nov 2017
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(15,682 posts)1. Will this elephant in the room ever be addressed?
there are lots of questions about its legitimacy
Yes there are. Will we ever ask them?
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)2. The evolving consensus is that Nucking Futz is illegitimate, and it's still not Mueller time yet.
Just wait for after the shit hits the fan.