GOP States Keep Ignoring Court Orders to Restore Voting Rights
GOP States Keep Ignoring Court Orders to Restore Voting Rights
Wisconsin, Ohio, Texas, and North Carolina won’t stop suppressing the vote.
By Ari Berman October 14, 2016
On July 29, US District Judge James Peterson called Wisconsin’s process for issuing voter IDs “unconstitutional,” “a wretched failure,” and “pretty much a disaster.” The state’s strict voter-ID law “has disenfranchised a number of citizens who are unquestionably qualified to vote, and these disenfranchised citizens are overwhelmingly African American and Latino,” he wrote.
The judge ordered that “Wisconsin may adopt a strict voter ID system only if that system has a well-functioning safety net” and that the state must “promptly issue a credential valid as a voting ID to any person who enters the [ID petition process] or who has a petition pending.”
But Wisconsin never followed the court’s order. On September 22, the same day Wisconsin assured the judge in a legal filing that everything was hunky-dory, Zack Moore, a 34-year-old homeless African-American man who moved from Chicago to Madison, was turned away from the DMV without a voter ID despite bringing an Illinois driver’s license, Social Security card, and proof of Wisconsin residency. He was told to go back to Illinois and get his birth certificate, or else it would take six to eight weeks for him to get an ID for voting, despite a sign in the DMV that said, “Get your ID to vote! No birth certificate? No problem!”
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Donna Brazile @donnabrazile 3 minutes ago
Let every eligible citizen vote. Read: GOP States Keep Ignoring Court Orders to Restore Voting Rights via @thenation
G. Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris 1 hour ago
You won't hear Trump talk about this:
GOP States Ignore Court Orders to Restore Voting Rights via @thenation
David Rothschild @DavMicRot 2 hours ago
Trump declares vote fixed as voter suppression of minority/poor in GOP controlled TX, OH, NC, WI continues unabated
Known Trump Pussy Grabs: 11 * Known Voter Fraud Cases: 10
LOLGOP @LOLGOP 28 minutes ago
To deflect from charges of sexual assault, Trump assaults our democracy.
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