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Revealed: Wisconsin's black and student populations at highest risk of voter purges
Source: The Guardian
Revealed: Wisconsin's black and student populations at highest risk of voter purges
Guardian analysis finds those expected to vote Democrat nearly twice as likely to be flagged for removal from voting rolls
Erin McCormick, Spenser Mestel and Sam Levine
Mon 6 Apr 2020 17.58 BST
Last modified on Mon 6 Apr 2020 19.36 BST
Laquesha Ellis couldn’t figure out why her voter registration could be stricken. The 31-year-old has lived with her two sons in the same gray shingled duplex in a majority black neighborhood for years.
Yet when the Guardian told her her name was one of one in 14 Wisconsin voters at risk of being removed from the voter rolls for potentially having changed addresses, Ellis was surprised. “I still live here. That’s not right,” she said. “Every vote is supposed to count.”
Approximately 232,000 Wisconsin voters are on this list after being identified by a complex matching system. In 2016, Donald Trump won the presidential election in Wisconsin by 22,748 votes, or less than 1%.
A new Guardian analysis has found voters in zip codes that were predominantly black or heavily populated by students were nearly twice as likely to be flagged for removal. These populations are also more likely to vote Democrat.
The Guardian also interviewed 100 people on the list and found that over a third either hadn’t moved at all, or had moved locally. Many were unaware they had to re-register.
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Guardian analysis finds those expected to vote Democrat nearly twice as likely to be flagged for removal from voting rolls
Erin McCormick, Spenser Mestel and Sam Levine
Mon 6 Apr 2020 17.58 BST
Last modified on Mon 6 Apr 2020 19.36 BST
Laquesha Ellis couldn’t figure out why her voter registration could be stricken. The 31-year-old has lived with her two sons in the same gray shingled duplex in a majority black neighborhood for years.
Yet when the Guardian told her her name was one of one in 14 Wisconsin voters at risk of being removed from the voter rolls for potentially having changed addresses, Ellis was surprised. “I still live here. That’s not right,” she said. “Every vote is supposed to count.”
Approximately 232,000 Wisconsin voters are on this list after being identified by a complex matching system. In 2016, Donald Trump won the presidential election in Wisconsin by 22,748 votes, or less than 1%.
A new Guardian analysis has found voters in zip codes that were predominantly black or heavily populated by students were nearly twice as likely to be flagged for removal. These populations are also more likely to vote Democrat.
The Guardian also interviewed 100 people on the list and found that over a third either hadn’t moved at all, or had moved locally. Many were unaware they had to re-register.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/06/wisconsin-voter-purges-black-student-populations-risk
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