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In reply to the discussion: Democrats say they now know exactly why Clinton lost [View all]csziggy
(34,139 posts)Hillary Clinton would have won.
I think it was something like 70,000 voters in Michigan who were affected by broken voting machines in mostly black districts. An unknown number of voters whose registration was challenged who may not have been able to vote across the country. Unknown numbers of voters who were not able to vote because of strict voter ID laws and inability to get qualifying identifications.
Oh - back to Michigan which has the insane law that if voting machines are broken no recount or audit is allowed.
Those factors alone probably would have pushed the election more to the Democratic side.
We need to register people to vote but we also need to make sure that once registered they have access to voting. We can help people get the IDs that are required in so many states - including helping them to pay for the documentation required to get those IDs and to pay for the IDs themselves (Florida for instance charges $25 for a state photo ID - on top of the amount required to get a certified birth certificate, and for women the cost to get marriage/divorce/death certificates if they changed their names when married).
In addition, we need to advertise this stuff - how voting machines are not secure, what IDs are required to vote, and how to get their IDs. We also need to push for changing the laws so our voting is verifiable and so real in depth audits are possible and will be done for every election. We also need to bring back the provisions of the Voting Act that protected voters from the abuse they have gotten since parts were overturned.