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Persondem

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3. Mother Jones shares your outrage. Their research supports the idea that voter suppression

Reply to mitty14u2 (Original post)

Fri Oct 20, 2017, 07:28 PM

Oct 2017

flipped WI to the GOP in 2016.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/021e17a1-032b-308c-a390-cc2d61334570/ss_voter-suppression-in.html

"Such policies are ostensibly instituted to prevent or discourage voter fraud, but Mother Jones points out that black voters were about 50 percent less likely to have a form of current ID than white voters. And when it comes to trying to renew those IDs or get new ones altogether, 85 percent of people denied identification by the DMV were black or Latino."

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Mad about Trump as President? Well VOTE - Were 300,000 Wisconsin voters turned away? [View all] mitty14u2 Oct 2017 OP

THANKS FOR NOTICING jodymarie aimee Oct 2017 #1

What's sickening to me is that we won, they know it, and the rules make it so ffr Oct 2017 #2

Mother Jones shares your outrage. Their research supports the idea that voter suppression Persondem Oct 2017 #3

K & R...for visibility... Wounded Bear Oct 2017 #4

Wisconsin is blue. Cheaters are red. . . .n/t annabanana Oct 2017 #5