So. Let’s talk about voting rights.
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6/ Minorities were disproportionately affected by the photo ID requirement: Black voters were about 50% likelier than whites to lack the ID.
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7/ This is Andrea Anthony. She's voted in every major election since she was 18—except for the 2016 election.pic.twitter.com/RwBfbz05FB
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8/ Anthony had lost her driver’s license before the election. Poll workers wouldn’t accept her expired state ID and proof of residency.
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9/ “I felt like the right to vote was being stripped away from me,” says Anthony.
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10/ College students were also disenfranchised: the law required signatures on college IDs and a two-year expiration date.
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11/ Only *3* out of 13 four-year schools in the University of WI system had IDs that met the law’s standards.
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12/ According to one study, 11% of registered voters in Wisconsin's two largest counties cited the voter ID law as a reason they didn’t vote
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13/ That means as many as 45,000 residents statewide were deferred from voting by the ID law.pic.twitter.com/kqU6tAGqiI
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14/ Trump won Wisconsin by 22,748 votes.
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15/ Neil Albrecht, Milwaukee's election director, says the photo ID requirement “changed the outcome of the election” in WI.pic.twitter.com/xvYvUzx0Z4
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16/ Voter suppression isn’t just happening in Wisconsin. It’s also taking place in the rest of the country.pic.twitter.com/EebGw47uNw
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17/ Since the gutting of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, states have seen an increasing rollback of voting protections.pic.twitter.com/BxSagw3ZTM
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18/ Republican-controlled statehouses have passed more voting restrictions in 2017 than in 2016 and 2015 combined.
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19/ As Ari writes: “The lesson from 2016 is terrifyingly clear. If voter suppression can work in Wisconsin...it can work anywhere.”
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20/20 “And if those who believe in fair elections don't’ start to take this threat seriously, history will repeat itself.”
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Proving that the GOP is nothing but a bunch of rich white supremacist.
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This is why we must learn politics and how government works so we can purge republicans from government politically.
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