Special report. Look at how close he is. Wisconsin barely in play. This is a relily democratic state. It was pretty clear that this was an earthquake. It was a shock. 2016 election was the first in 50 years without the full protections of the Voting Rights act. Voters blocked from ballot boxes. Im trying to stop voters from committing fraud. These voter i. D. Laws are not to prevent voter fraud but to keep certain people from the polls. Voters stifled by rigged maps. My neighborhood has been split. The line was drawn right through it. Has ta la vista to gerrymandering. Voter suppression is not a conspiracy. If you make it harder to vote then we should make it a lot harder for you to get reelected. Now a new front in the war on voter rights. What it takes is the boots on the ground. The time has come for voter i. D. Weve got to spring into action. And the time is getting more urgent. Tonight, a cnn special report, democracy in peril the war on Voting Rights. Cnn now projects that donald
what the numbers indicated is that there may have been about 11% of people who didn t vote in our survey said that one of the reasons they didn t vote was they didn t have an i.d. in milwaukee and dane counties which are the two the biggest counties in the state. we re talking about just in these two counties. somewhere in the range of 6,000 to 13,000 people. was that enough wisconsin voters to sway the outcome? election experts did the math. donald trump won the state by less than 1 percentage point. it was about 23,000 votes. from ken maier s study we know that there were tens of thousands of people in these two big counties and probably more in the rest of the state who were deterred from voting because of the i.d. requirement. the vast majority would have been democratic voters. i think it s not hard to see that the i.d. requirement probably halliburton enough of a depressive effect. she fought very hard.