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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 08:57 AM Oct 2017

Rigged: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump (And possibly handed him the whole election)

Rigged: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump
And possibly handed him the whole election.
ARI BERMAN NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017 ISSUE

You can’t say Andrea Anthony didn’t try. A 37-year-old African American woman with an infectious smile, Anthony had voted in every major election since she was 18. On November 8, 2016, she went to the Clinton Rose Senior Center, her polling site on the predominantly black north side of Milwaukee, to cast a ballot for Hillary Clinton. “Voting is important to me because I know I have a little, teeny, tiny voice, but that is a way for it to be heard,” she said. “Even though it’s one vote, I feel it needs to count.”

She’d lost her driver’s license a few days earlier, but she came prepared with an expired Wisconsin state ID and proof of residency. A poll worker confirmed she was registered to vote at her current address. But this was Wisconsin’s first major election that required voters—even those who were already registered—to present a current driver’s license, passport, or state or military ID to cast a ballot. Anthony couldn’t, and so she wasn’t able to vote.

The poll worker gave her a provisional ballot instead.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/voter-suppression-wisconsin-election-2016/
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Rigged: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump (And possibly handed him the whole election) (Original Post) workinclasszero Oct 2017 OP
In all of the JustAnotherGen Oct 2017 #1
Russia and the GOP are working hand in hand workinclasszero Oct 2017 #2
Not "possibly." GoCubsGo Oct 2017 #3
+1000 mountain grammy Oct 2017 #4
Agreed workinclasszero Oct 2017 #14
Cheating is the only path to victory for the ultra-right Republicans, and they know it. L. Coyote Oct 2017 #5
What is needed is a strong democratic turnout in 2018. Initech Oct 2017 #7
I don't understand how the elections stands... Joe941 Oct 2017 #6
because there is no mechanism to void an election... thesquanderer Oct 2017 #11
russians and republicans against American democracy Achilleaze Oct 2017 #8
Karl Rove used to brag that you don't just cheat, you cheat a hundred different ways. byronius Oct 2017 #9
And KKKarl RRRove would know... you cover all the shifty, shiesty little bases, and cheat... Raster Oct 2017 #10
yes they cheat from ever direction questionseverything Oct 2017 #13
Thanks for the correction. I remembered an article from just after the election about byronius Oct 2017 #16
even if the entire state was hand counted(which it wasn't) questionseverything Oct 2017 #17
Soooooo ridiculous and, in the end, bad for them as well. byronius Oct 2017 #18
Even if you believe ID is okay, "Current" ID should not be a factor. thesquanderer Oct 2017 #12
The GOP is the party of voter suppression Gothmog Oct 2017 #15

JustAnotherGen

(31,823 posts)
1. In all of the
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 09:00 AM
Oct 2017

Black Voters didn't vote nonsense we keep reading - I think folks need to understand this element of the puzzle.

Thanks for posting.

It's not difficult to pull up data on race/district - and throw the monkey wrench into our Federal Republic.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
2. Russia and the GOP are working hand in hand
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 09:07 AM
Oct 2017

to strip Americans of their right to vote.

And of course PoC are the GOP's preferred targets, always.

GoCubsGo

(32,084 posts)
3. Not "possibly."
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 09:33 AM
Oct 2017

In all likelihood, it DID. It wasn't just Wisconsin, either. The same sorts of things were reported in PA, MI, NC, FL... All those states went to the Dotard by tiny margins. They all engaged in these sorts of voter suppression tactics.

mountain grammy

(26,621 posts)
4. +1000
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 09:35 AM
Oct 2017

stolen election. I'll never believe anything different. The GOP's been working on this for years.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
5. Cheating is the only path to victory for the ultra-right Republicans, and they know it.
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 09:41 AM
Oct 2017

What is needed is a populist revolt inside the Republican Party to throw out the Koch/Plutocrat party.

Initech

(100,076 posts)
7. What is needed is a strong democratic turnout in 2018.
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 10:01 AM
Oct 2017

And vote out all the Koch roaches. Otherwise we'll just replace a far right regime with an even further right regime. And then it will be same shit, different day.

 

Joe941

(2,848 posts)
6. I don't understand how the elections stands...
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 09:52 AM
Oct 2017

considering it has been proven to be stolen and corrupt beyond the pale.

byronius

(7,395 posts)
9. Karl Rove used to brag that you don't just cheat, you cheat a hundred different ways.
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 11:24 AM
Oct 2017

So throw in the relevant fact that Russia manufactured GOP voters out of thin air in many states (which in Wisconsin showed up as counties with more votes than voters, which was instantly dismissed as irrelevant by the Wisconsin SOS), and the tabulators that were routinely adding 5% to the Trump count, the gerrymandering and probably 97 other cheaty methods --

A fair, monitored, hand-counted paper-ballot election would have found Hillary with a Democratic House and Senate. Because democracy works when it's practiced. When it's not, you get strong-arm right-wing greedhead lunatics destroying all that is green and good.

Like now.

Raster

(20,998 posts)
10. And KKKarl RRRove would know... you cover all the shifty, shiesty little bases, and cheat...
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 11:45 AM
Oct 2017

...every way possible. In KKKarl's parlance, it's called "the math."

questionseverything

(9,654 posts)
13. yes they cheat from ever direction
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 02:10 PM
Oct 2017

it has gotten to the point where citizens are denigrated if they suggest we should look at the ballots

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029722275

only one mistake in your post, the wis sos does not run wis elections

it used to be the gab then walker changed it to another agency

byronius

(7,395 posts)
16. Thanks for the correction. I remembered an article from just after the election about
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 04:24 PM
Oct 2017

how Wisconsin would only re-run the tabulated totals, not recount the votes in any way. Very suspicious behavior, typically Republican, obviously cheated, just the facts.

Plus -- that video from the vote count observer in that small town that re-ran a handful of votes through the tabulator and found that it was adding 5% for Trump -- but the GOP head of the precinct threatened to kick her out if she said another word.

My god we're so stupid, just as a general nation. It's either democracy or oligarchy, and the GOP is choosing oligarchy. Well technically, plutocracy.

questionseverything

(9,654 posts)
17. even if the entire state was hand counted(which it wasn't)
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 04:48 PM
Oct 2017

Wisconsin has a bad history with chain of custody issues

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8531



As The BRAD BLOG obtained evidence of new irregularities this week --- to add to previously reported revelations of, among other irregularities, ballot bags discovered "wide open" with mismatched or missing serial numbers as well as ballots discovered completely unsecured, all in violation of the secure chain of custody, and other similar messes and mistallies across the state --- we wanted to find out if the state's chief election agency, the Government Accountability Board (G.A.B.), was able to confirm that the ballots counted during the "recount" were actually the ones cast on Election Day. And, if so, how they could confirm that.

To date, with about 25,000 "recounted" votes still to be canvassed from the now infamous Waukesha County, some 2,690 votes have been discovered during the "recount" to have been originally mistallied. That's according to the G.A.B.'s own figures, and includes hundreds of thousands of ballots which were simply re-tallied rather than counted by hand during the "recount," on the same computers which tallied them --- either correctly or incorrectly --- on Election Night.

byronius

(7,395 posts)
18. Soooooo ridiculous and, in the end, bad for them as well.
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 05:32 PM
Oct 2017

They like to win so much that they'll do anything, anything at all; but their ideas are the Worst, and spell doom for this nation. If they get their way, we'll be living in The Walking Dead universe.

Y'know, Libertarian Paradise.

thesquanderer

(11,989 posts)
12. Even if you believe ID is okay, "Current" ID should not be a factor.
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 12:38 PM
Oct 2017

A driver's license or other ID doesn't have to be "current" to prove you are who you say you are. It may have to be current for other purposes, but as identification, whether or not it's current makes no difference. Just one more unnecessary roadblock.

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