The GOPs Attack on Voting Rights Was the Most Under-Covered Story of 2016
We’ll likely never know how many people were kept from the polls by restrictions like voter-ID laws, cuts to early voting, and barriers to voter registration. But at the very least this should have been a question that many more people were looking into. For example, 27,000 votes currently separate Trump and Clinton in Wisconsin, where 300,000 registered voters, according to a federal court, lacked strict forms of voter ID. Voter turnout in Wisconsin was at its lowest levels in 20 years and decreased 13 percent in Milwaukee, where 70 percent of the state’s African-American population lives, according to Daniel Nichanian of the University of Chicago.
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-gops-attack-on-voting-rights-was-the-most-under-covered-story-of-2016/
The GOP's Stealth War Against Voters
The data is processed through a system called the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, which is being promoted by a powerful Republican operative, and its lists of potential duplicate voters are kept confidential. But Rolling Stone obtained a portion of the list and the names of 1 million targeted voters. According to our analysis, the Crosscheck list disproportionately threatens solid Democratic constituencies: young, black, Hispanic and Asian-American voters – with some of the biggest possible purges underway in Ohio and North Carolina, two crucial swing states with tight Senate races.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/the-gops-stealth-war-against-voters-w435890
Trump Threatens to Make the GOP the Party of Permanent Voter Suppression
Perhaps Donald Trump’s tweet alleging that his popular-vote loss to Hillary Clinton was the result of “millions of people who voted illegally” means nothing beyond the president-elect’s reflexive inability to admit defeat in any aspect of the election. Maybe as a “populist,” he thinks it is important to claim some sort of popular mandate for his agenda, facts be damned. And speaking of “facts be damned,” quite possibly Trump just cannot get out of the habit of playing the victim, even when he’s won.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/trump-could-make-gop-a-party-of-permanent-voter-suppression.html
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Between whatever in totality it was that the ruskies did to adversely hurt our democracy over here and to get their puppet tRumputin elected, all of what the GOP did in terms of voter suppression, voter disenfranchisement, voter purging in places like Michigan and Wisconsin and voter crosschecking. There were thousands of Dems purged off of the voting rolls in "key" states where tRumputin needed just enough "help" to beat Hillary. We know who had a 5-4 majority on the Supreme Court and who made the ruling which gutted the Civil Rights act. Now, that same wing has a stolen 5-4 majority on the court, AND we have a tRumputin DOJ AND beauguard the racist as our AG. THAT ruskie-loving bunch is going to be out to gut Voting/Civil Rights act on 'roids ahead of 2018 and 2020. I believe the will to vote these thuglican, ruskie-loving bums out is there, but will our Dem votes count--that's IF we're not purged or crosschecked off of the voting rolls and we CAN vote.
An extremely SAD situation for Dems to be in, but it's where we are.
Just for starters:
There Are 868 Fewer Places to Vote in 2016 Because the Supreme Court Gutted the Voting Rights Act
Nearly half of counties that previously approved voting changes with the federal government have cut polling places this election.
By Ari Berman NOVEMBER 4, 2016
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https://www.thenation.com/article/there-are-868-fewer-places-to-vote-in-2016-because-the-supreme-court-gutted-the-voting-rights-act/
America scrubs millions from the voter rolls. Is it fair?
5:00 am, August 22, 2016 Updated: 2:49 pm, April 12, 2017
SPARTA, Ga. – The cleansing of America’s voter registration rolls occurs every two years and has become a legal battleground between politicians who say the purges are fair and necessary, and voting rights advocates who contend that they discriminate.
Voting rights groups repeatedly have challenged states’ registration purges, including those in Ohio, Georgia, Kansas and Iowa, contending that black, Latino, poor, young and homeless voters have been disproportionately purged. In Florida, Kansas, Iowa and Harris County, Texas, courts have ordered elections officials to restore thousands of voters to the registration rolls or to halt purges they found discriminatory.
News21 analyzed lists of nearly 50 million registered voters from a dozen states, and 7 million more who were removed over the last year. By comparing voter registration and purge lists against U.S. Census data, News21 found no national or statewide pattern of discrimination against voters based on race, ethnicity, poverty, age or surname.
https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/08/22/20079/america-scrubs-millions-voter-rolls-it-fair
