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    1. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 23 Oct 2017

      3/ @ariberman investigated how Wisconsin’s voting restrictions may have affected the election. Here’s what he found.http://bit.ly/2yAkGYe 

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    2. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 23 Oct 2017

      4/ In 2016, voter turnout in WI was the lowest since 2000. It used to rank second in the nation.

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    3. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 23 Oct 2017

      5/ More than half of WI’s decline in voter turnout was in Milwaukee, home to nearly two-thirds of the state’s African American population.

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    4. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 23 Oct 2017

      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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    5. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 23 Oct 2017

      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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    6. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 23 Oct 2017

      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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    7. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 23 Oct 2017

      9/ “I felt like the right to vote was being stripped away from me,” says Anthony.

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    8. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 23 Oct 2017

      10/ College students were also disenfranchised: the law required signatures on college IDs and a two-year expiration date.

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    9. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 23 Oct 2017

      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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    10. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 23 Oct 2017

      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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      Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 23 Oct 2017

      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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        2. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 23 Oct 2017

          14/ Trump won Wisconsin by 22,748 votes.

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        3. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 23 Oct 2017

          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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        4. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 23 Oct 2017

          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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        5. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 23 Oct 2017

          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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        6. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 23 Oct 2017

          18/ Republican-controlled statehouses have passed more voting restrictions in 2017 than in 2016 and 2015 combined.

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        7. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 23 Oct 2017

          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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        8. Mother Jones‏Verified account @MotherJones 23 Oct 2017

          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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        1. becke‏ @serfbot 23 Oct 2017
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          Trump Sending us forever Backward #NotMyPresident #electoralreform #popularvote

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        1. Oil the Poil‏ @Oilthepoil 23 Oct 2017
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          Let’s hope that all red districts & red states turn blue in 2018. As long as Trump & the GOP screwed up badly by then.

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        1. Chip Faust‏ @ChipFaust 24 Oct 2017
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          I bring my up to date passport with me to every vote, just in case. When polls won't accept passports as ID use it to flee.

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        1. Blue Wave  🌊: VOTE NOV 6th‏ @WOMEN4ACAUSE 23 Oct 2017
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          Voter suppression

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        1.  ❄SpecialSnowFlake ❄‏ @miamidecor 23 Oct 2017
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          This is so disgusting! The MAJORITY of voters put Hilary in the WH. EVEN with all the suppression. @realDonaldTrump is #IllegitimatePOTUS

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