Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Will Trump Join GOP's Voter ID Push From the White House?


If president-elect Donald Trump and Republicans push for broad changes to American's voting laws, they could face an impediment — state and federal court judges who are increasingly striking down GOP-passed voting laws, casting them as intentionally discriminatory.

Trump falsely claimed on Sunday that millions of people voted illegally in the November election and said, without evidence, that California, New Hampshire and Virginia in particular had voting irregularities.

Conservatives have used the specter of voter fraud, which a number of studies have shown is virtually non-existent in American elections, to pass laws that disproportionately make it harder to vote for people of color and college students, who tend to back Democratic candidates. 

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Source: NBC News

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