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Wisconsin's Voter-ID Law Suppressed 200,000 Votes in 2016 (Trump Won by 22,748)
Wisconsin's Voter-ID Law Suppressed 200,000 Votes in 2016 (Trump Won by 22,748)
Prior to the 2016 election, Eddie Lee Holloway Jr., a 58-year-old African-American man, moved from Illinois to Wisconsin, which implemented a strict voter-ID law for the first time in 2016.
thenation.com




A lot of articles that talk about voter laws mention something similar to this:
I'm going to have to look this up obviously, but I don't understand why this is an issue with African-American voters. Was there a widespread problem of birth certificates being issued with errors? Are we finding African-Americans move more and then (understandably) neglect to update the ID? Is it harder for African-American to get IDs...in general?
This is old, but I guess that explains it.