Rigged: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/voter-suppression-wisconsin-election-2016/

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.”

 

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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. It would be counted only if she went to the Department of Motor Vehicles to get a new ID and then to the city clerk’s office to confirm her vote, all within 72 hours of Election Day. But Anthony couldn’t take time off from her job as an administrative assistant at a housing management company, and she had five kids and two grandkids to look after. For the first time in her life, her vote wasn’t counted.

I met Anthony on a rainy Wednesday evening in mid-August. She had recently moved to Madison for a job making sales calls for the health insurance company Humana and was living in an Econo Lodge off the freeway with two of her kids and her mother-in-law as she looked for permanent housing. “This particular election was very important to me,” she told me in the motel’s small lobby, citing her strong aversion to Donald Trump. “I felt like the right to vote was being stripped away from me.”

Anthony said her 19-year-old daughter and 21-year-old nephew, who didn’t drive regularly and had misplaced their licenses, were also stymied by the new law. “It was their first election, and they were really excited to vote,” she said. But they didn’t go to the polls because they knew their votes wouldn’t count. Both had planned to vote for Clinton.

[Neonred 3,564]

Rigged: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump

 

 

So, only Clinton supporters lost their ID's?

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

That’s horrible news!!  And to think Hillary would have won if she had been able to vote.  I am appalled at this tragic turn of events.  

 

If it makes you feel any better, I wasn’t able to vote either for a similar silly reason.  Should even it out.

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

14 minutes ago, IDWAF said:

That’s horrible news!!  And to think Hillary would have won if she had been able to vote.  I am appalled at this tragic turn of events.  

 

If it makes you feel any better, I wasn’t able to vote either for a similar silly reason.  Should even it out.

it must feel good knowing that your right to vote was removed..

[jayjayj 571]

I suspect the lower voter turnout in left leaning Wisconsin districts was mainly due to her being an inadequate candidate who didn't inspire many democrats to go to the polls.

 

Then there is this little nugget from the linked story - "Clinton’s stunning loss in Wisconsin was blamed on her failure to campaign in the state, and the depressed turnout was attributed to a lack of enthusiasm for either candidate."

 

 

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

4 minutes ago, jayjayj said:

I suspect the lower voter turnout in left leaning Wisconsin districts was mainly due to her being an inadequate candidate who didn't inspire many democrats to go to the polls.

 

Then there is this little nugget from the linked story - "Clinton’s stunning loss in Wisconsin was blamed on her failure to campaign in the state, and the depressed turnout was attributed to a lack of enthusiasm for either candidate."

 

 

So what affect did the law have on all of the other races in the ballot?

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

12 minutes ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

it must feel good knowing that your right to vote was removed..

At the end of the day, one vote, or even 1,000 votes don’t really make a difference.  Was I happy about it?  No.  But I wasn’t upset enough to complain about it.  It happened.  It won’t happen next time, I can assure you that.

[Voice of Reason 10,298]

Just now, Il Mango Dulce said:

So what affect did the law have on all of the other races in the ballot?

Wait... drivers licenses are lost by people based on their RACE?  Which race loses them more frequently?

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

Just now, IDWAF said:

Wait... drivers licenses are lost by people based on their RACE?  Which race loses them more frequently?

Race for office  (on the ballot). It's good to know that I'll Mango's posts have become a Rorschach  test.

[jayjayj 571]

Voter ID laws have popular support throughout most of the world and throughout a majority of American citizens - across race, gender, and political affiliation.

 

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/444106/obama-lies-voter-id-many-countries-require-it

 

"Polls have shown that voter-ID laws and similar measures enjoy great popular support all over the world. In the U.S., a comprehensive Washington Post poll in 2012 found that 74 percent of respondents believed that voters should present a photo ID. Polls since then have confirmed that level of support.

 

Backing for voter ID in the Washington Post poll crossed all demographic lines — 66 percent of independents, 60 percent of Democrats, 65 percent of African Americans, and 64 percent of Hispanics. The Post also asked whether respondents thought that the supporters and opponents of voter ID were acting out of genuine concern for fair elections or were instead trying to gain partisan advantage. Respondents replied that voter-ID opponents were acting more out of partisanship than supporters were. “I think that party leaders have tried to make this a Republican-versus-Democrat issue,” former Democratic state representative Jon Brien, who shepherded Rhode Island’s 2011 voter-ID law through a Democratic legislature, told the Pew Center’s Stateline news service. “It’s not. It’s simply a good-government issue.”"



 

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

1 minute ago, jayjayj said:

Voter ID laws have popular support throughout most of the world and throughout a majority of American citizens - across race, gender, and political affiliation.

 

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/444106/obama-lies-voter-id-many-countries-require-it

 

"Polls have shown that voter-ID laws and similar measures enjoy great popular support all over the world. In the U.S., a comprehensive Washington Post poll in 2012 found that 74 percent of respondents believed that voters should present a photo ID. Polls since then have confirmed that level of support.

 

Backing for voter ID in the Washington Post poll crossed all demographic lines — 66 percent of independents, 60 percent of Democrats, 65 percent of African Americans, and 64 percent of Hispanics. The Post also asked whether respondents thought that the supporters and opponents of voter ID were acting out of genuine concern for fair elections or were instead trying to gain partisan advantage. Respondents replied that voter-ID opponents were acting more out of partisanship than supporters were. “I think that party leaders have tried to make this a Republican-versus-Democrat issue,” former Democratic state representative Jon Brien, who shepherded Rhode Island’s 2011 voter-ID law through a Democratic legislature, told the Pew Center’s Stateline news service. “It’s not. It’s simply a good-government issue.”"



 

You may be missing some if the details about the law. Photo ID is not the standard.

[jayjayj 571]

10 minutes ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

Race for office  (on the ballot). It's good to know that I'll Mango's posts have become a Rorschach  test.

The Rorschach Test has been discredited.  So yeah, you might be right.

[jayjayj 571]

Speaking of being discredited.  It seems the source study for the article you posted is in the same boat.

 

http://www.maciverinstitute.com/2017/10/clerk-defends-junk-study-to-claim-voter-id-suppressed-turnout/

[jayjayj 571]

8 minutes ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

You may be missing some if the details about the law. Photo ID is not the standard.

It should be the standard everywhere and soon will be, but it certainly is the current standard in Wisconsin.  To me it seems like common sense that you should have to prove your identity and citizenship to vote - even Canada agrees.

 

https://www.bringitwisconsin.com/do-i-have-right-photo-id

 

If you have one of these photo IDs, you are ready to vote!

These are acceptable for voting purposes, and can be unexpired or expired after the date of the most recent general election (currently, the November 8, 2016 election):

These are acceptable for voting purposes, and can be unexpired or expired after the date of the most recent general election (currently, the November 8, 2016 election):

• A Wisconsin DOT-issued driver license, even if driving privileges are revoked or suspended
• A Wisconsin DOT-issued identification card
• A Wisconsin DOT-issued identification card or driver license without a photo issued under the religious exemption
• Military ID card issued by a U.S. uniformed service
• A U.S. passport
• An identification card issued by a federally recognized Indian tribe in Wisconsin (May be used even if expired before the most recent general election.)
• A photo identification card issued by a Wisconsin accredited university or college that contains date of issuance, signature of student, and an expiration date no later than two years after date of issuance. Also, the university or college ID must be accompanied by a separate document that proves enrollment. (May be used even if expired before the most recent general election.)

[jg121783 3,915]

A couple things. Being a Wisconsin resident I was not very happy when the left threw a temper tantrum and wasted tax money investigating non existent voter fraud. After finding nothing the left still won't stop whining. The second thing is most stores require ID to buy cough syrup but the left has an issue showing ID to vote? Talk about messed up priorities. If you know you need a valid unexpired ID to vote and fail to renew your ID before you vote you have no one to blame but yourself.