They discovered that 28,000 citizens in just two cities, Milwaukee and Madison, were blocked by the ID requirement. (This 28,000 excludes the majority of voters without proper ID who did not vote for other reasons, such as long lines or who just didn't give a damn about voting.)
Some folks did in fact have the ID required, but the law is so complex and little-explained that thousands thought they did not have acceptable ID. One in 11 Black voters did not have the right ID, but more than twice that many thought they didn't, so they did not show up at the polls.
Take a look at this chart from the University of Wisconsin study. The ID law was three times as likely to block African Americans as whites.
The Black vote in Wisconsin statewide fell by a mind-blowing 24.5 percent between 2012 and 2016 when the ID law hit. The loss of Black and student votes due to the ID law cost at minimum 61,274 votes, almost three times Trump's plurality. And that estimate of the loss is low. I've left out the Latinx voters who are growing near to the size of the Black population. Any way you calculate it, the show-me-your-papers ID tactic won Wisconsin, not the voters.
And that's how Trump has already stolen 2020. But, if we raise hell and raise the warning, we can steal it back. And we can try something new for the U.S. letting the voters choose the president.
This article is adapted from the author's newly released book, How Trump Stole 2020.
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