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Re: Trump Loses 5000 Votes In Wisconsin Before Recount Begins
It's instructive to look at who we can identify as not having voted, largely for the reasons indicated. So let's hear from the Executive Director of the Milwaukee Election Commission
Did Trump Steal Wisconsin?
Some point to voter suppression as a factor in this state and others.
Some, however, believe voter suppression reduced Clinton’s total. Neil Albrecht, executive director of the city Election Commission, told the Journal Sentinel “we had some of the greatest declines in the districts we projected would have the the most trouble with ID requirements.” He said four districts of the city with the most “transient, high poverty” residents experienced trouble with people struggling to meet the photo ID requirements. “We had a lot of calls” about such problems, he added.
Ari Berman, writing for The Nation, notes that in this state “300,000 registered voters, according to a federal court, lacked strict forms of voter ID” and that voter turnout “decreased 13 percent in Milwaukee, where 70 percent of the state’s African-American population lives.”
Berman has documented voters disenfranchised in Wisconsin, and there is considerable evidence state Division of Motor Vehicle workers were giving voters misleading information about their right to vote.
Scot Ross of the liberal One Wisconsin Institute, says restrictive voting laws could have turned the state red for the first time in 32 years of presidential elections. “I’d need more data,” he says “but 27,000 votes isn’t all that many when you think about the number of people without ID.”
Murphy?s Law: Did Trump Steal Wisconsin? » Urban Milwaukee
The right whinge shoots itself in the foot when they jump to say these are exactly the people who shouldn't be voting. What they mean is, Democratic Party voters shouldn't be voting. It the old right whinge mantra of Democrats are evil, corrupt, wicked, out to destroy the Right Wing Paradise blah blah blurp blurp.
It's instructive to look at who we can identify as not having voted, largely for the reasons indicated. So let's hear from the Executive Director of the Milwaukee Election Commission
Did Trump Steal Wisconsin?
Some point to voter suppression as a factor in this state and others.
Some, however, believe voter suppression reduced Clinton’s total. Neil Albrecht, executive director of the city Election Commission, told the Journal Sentinel “we had some of the greatest declines in the districts we projected would have the the most trouble with ID requirements.” He said four districts of the city with the most “transient, high poverty” residents experienced trouble with people struggling to meet the photo ID requirements. “We had a lot of calls” about such problems, he added.
Ari Berman, writing for The Nation, notes that in this state “300,000 registered voters, according to a federal court, lacked strict forms of voter ID” and that voter turnout “decreased 13 percent in Milwaukee, where 70 percent of the state’s African-American population lives.”
Berman has documented voters disenfranchised in Wisconsin, and there is considerable evidence state Division of Motor Vehicle workers were giving voters misleading information about their right to vote.
Scot Ross of the liberal One Wisconsin Institute, says restrictive voting laws could have turned the state red for the first time in 32 years of presidential elections. “I’d need more data,” he says “but 27,000 votes isn’t all that many when you think about the number of people without ID.”
Murphy?s Law: Did Trump Steal Wisconsin? » Urban Milwaukee
The right whinge shoots itself in the foot when they jump to say these are exactly the people who shouldn't be voting. What they mean is, Democratic Party voters shouldn't be voting. It the old right whinge mantra of Democrats are evil, corrupt, wicked, out to destroy the Right Wing Paradise blah blah blurp blurp.
