My Student Showed Me How Pervasive and Powerful the Anti-HRC Campaign Was

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46. Actually it can,

we have reports of hundreds of thousands of people in many states being turned away from voting, not being given voter ids in time (despite a court ruling), being turned away for lack of adequate ids, despite having many forms of government issues ids, and being given provisional ballots that were never counted.

That's not even looking at the votes that were never counted, in places like MI where the vote totals from the machines didn't match the books, etc. etc.

Your screen name is Motownman, did you have no idea what was happening in Wayne County during the recount?


I can't paste a link for some reason (browser is being weird), but I suggest you google a piece by Ari Berman on Bill Moyers site entitled: "A New Study Shows Just How Many Americans Were Blocked From Voting in Wisconin Last Year" posted on 9/27/17

Wisconsin Voter ID Law Proved Unsurmountable For Many (An AP story posted on 5/14/17 on www.jsonline.com addresses the point you found so interesteing about the under 29's, many of whom are college students and young mobile people in the workforce who don't update their basic id, and quite a few who demonstrate a basic failure of understanding about how elections work, when registration happens or when things need to be done.