Tag: voter ID

Added by PressForward

👓 Wisconsin’s Voter-ID Law Suppressed 200,000 Votes in 2016 (Trump Won by 22,748) | The Nation

Read Wisconsin’s Voter-ID Law Suppressed 200,000 Votes in 2016 (Trump Won by 22,748) (The Nation)
A new study shows how voter-ID laws decreased turnout among African-American and Democratic voters.

Point of View: North Carolina no longer a democracy | News & Observer

Read North Carolina is no longer classified as a democracy by Andrew Reynolds (newsobserver)
In the just released EIP report, North Carolina’s overall electoral integrity score of 58/100 for the 2016 election places us alongside authoritarian states and pseudo-democracies like Cuba, Indonesia and Sierra Leone. If it were a nation state, North Carolina would rank right in the middle of the global league table – a deeply flawed, partly-free, democracy that is only slightly ahead of the failed democracies that constitute much of the developing world.