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Showing Original Post only (View all)Top Republican ADMITS Trump Won Wisconsin by Keeping Democrats From Voting [View all]
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/04/top-republican-official-says-trump-won-wisconsin-because-of-voter-id-law/Election officials and Democrats in Wisconsin have repeatedly argued that the states strict voter ID law allowed Donald Trump to win the state in 2016 by keeping thousands of voterspredominantly in Democratic-leaning areasfrom the polls. Now a top Republican official in the state is saying the same thing.
We battled to get voter ID on the ballot for the November 16 election, Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel, who defended the law in court, told conservative radio host Vicki McKenna on April 12. How many of your listeners really honestly are sure that Sen. [Ron] Johnson was going to win reelection or President Trump was going to win Wisconsin if we didnt have voter ID to keep Wisconsins elections clean and honest and have integrity?
The law, which went into effect in 2016, required specific forms of government-issued photo identification to vote. In a cover story last year, Mother Jones reported that the law kept tens of thousands of eligible voters from the polls and likely tipped the state to Trump. A federal court found in 2014 that 9 percent of registered voters in Wisconsin did not possess the identification necessary to vote. In a University of Wisconsin study published in September 2017, 1 in 10 registered voters in Milwaukee County and Madisons Dane County who did not cast a ballot in 2016 cited the voter ID law as a reason why. That meant that up to 23,000 voters in the two heavily Democratic countiesand as many as 45,000 voters statewidedidnt vote because of the voter ID law. Trump won the state by 22,000 votes.
African Americans, who favored Hillary Clinton over Trump by an 88-to-8 margin, were three times as likely as whites to say they were deterred from voting by the law.
Indeed, turnout fell most sharply in black neighborhoods of Milwaukee that heavily supported Clinton. Nearly 41,000 fewer people in the citywhere Clinton received 77 percent of the vote to Trumps 18voted in 2016 than in 2012.
We battled to get voter ID on the ballot for the November 16 election, Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel, who defended the law in court, told conservative radio host Vicki McKenna on April 12. How many of your listeners really honestly are sure that Sen. [Ron] Johnson was going to win reelection or President Trump was going to win Wisconsin if we didnt have voter ID to keep Wisconsins elections clean and honest and have integrity?
The law, which went into effect in 2016, required specific forms of government-issued photo identification to vote. In a cover story last year, Mother Jones reported that the law kept tens of thousands of eligible voters from the polls and likely tipped the state to Trump. A federal court found in 2014 that 9 percent of registered voters in Wisconsin did not possess the identification necessary to vote. In a University of Wisconsin study published in September 2017, 1 in 10 registered voters in Milwaukee County and Madisons Dane County who did not cast a ballot in 2016 cited the voter ID law as a reason why. That meant that up to 23,000 voters in the two heavily Democratic countiesand as many as 45,000 voters statewidedidnt vote because of the voter ID law. Trump won the state by 22,000 votes.
African Americans, who favored Hillary Clinton over Trump by an 88-to-8 margin, were three times as likely as whites to say they were deterred from voting by the law.
Indeed, turnout fell most sharply in black neighborhoods of Milwaukee that heavily supported Clinton. Nearly 41,000 fewer people in the citywhere Clinton received 77 percent of the vote to Trumps 18voted in 2016 than in 2012.
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Top Republican ADMITS Trump Won Wisconsin by Keeping Democrats From Voting [View all]
CousinIT
Apr 2018
OP
What specifically leads you to believe the local party is in fact, not assisting anyone?
LanternWaste
Apr 2018
#4
I agree...we need to have thousands of volunteers descend upon states that pass such ID laws for ...
SWBTATTReg
Apr 2018
#6
So all the WHY DIDN'T HILLARY GO TO WISCONSIN people can now jump off a bridge.
Blue_Tires
Apr 2018
#9
Sorry, I'm not jumping, and she could have come here once but she was too overconfident
elocs
Apr 2018
#21
Better stick to subjects you know something about because Wisconsin is not one of them. n/t
elocs
Apr 2018
#23
I doubt it would have mattered. But I blame Republicans and Russians not Hillary...the elections
Demsrule86
Apr 2018
#31
It's ELECTION fraud. "Voter fraud" doesn't exist. Election fraud is RAMPANT. n/t
CousinIT
Apr 2018
#30
Big GOP donors keep talk radio alive...please remember the get rid of big donors attitude in
Demsrule86
Apr 2018
#32