2016 Postmortem
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triron
(22,240 posts)SickOfTheOnePct
(7,339 posts)unless 300,000 Wisconsin voters actually showed up at the polls and were refused a ballot or forced to vote a provisional ballot.
Which of course, couldn't possibly have been known within 24 hours of the election being over.
Being removed from the voter rolls is meaningless unless the voter actually attempts to vote.
Laurian
(2,593 posts)It was a hurdle that many could not get over due to limited means/mobility. Repubs knew that this disenfranchisement would work for those very reasons.
Amaryllis
(9,809 posts)still_one
(96,523 posts)in addition, the 2013 Supreme Court decision to roll back a key provision of the voters rights act, embolden more states to add these restrictive voting laws