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(110,263 posts)Visiting Wisconsin wouldn't have made up for the depressed turnout caused by the ID law.
https://www.thenation.com/article/wisconsins-voter-id-law-suppressed-200000-votes-trump-won-by-23000/
According to federal court records, 300,000 registered voters, 9 percent of the electorate, lacked strict forms of voter ID in Wisconsin. A new study by Priorities USA, shared exclusively with The Nation, shows that strict voter-ID laws, in Wisconsin and other states, led to a significant reduction in voter turnout in 2016, with a disproportionate impact on African-American and Democratic-leaning voters. Wisconsins voter-ID law reduced turnout by 200,000 votes, according to the new analysis. Donald Trump won the state by only 22,748 votes.
The lost voters skewed more African-American and more Democrat. For example, Wisconsins 2016 electorate was 6.1% more Republican, and 5.7% less Democrat, than the group of lost voters. Furthermore, the WI electorate was 3.7% more White and 3.8% less African American than the group of lost voters. This analysis suggests that the 200,000 lost voters would have both been more racially diverse and have voted more Democratic.