Debunking More Lies From The Left - This Time, Voter ID Laws

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arlier this month, President Trump announced a commission to investigate voter fraud and suppression. Of course, the Democrats disagree with this initiative. It’s become a national pastime for the Left to label any measures to ensure accountability in our elections as racist. Photo ID laws are considered anathema to the Left, even eliciting commentaries that they represent a reconstituted Jim Crow era. In Wisconsin, Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin feels voter turnout was reduced by 200,000 because of the voter ID law. The problem is that it’s pretty much not true. Over to you Left-leaning Politifact:

Voter turnout in 2016 was reduced by approx. 200,000 votes because of WI’s photo ID laws. We need to oppose them: https://secure.tammybaldwin.com/EndVoterSuppression …

8:18 PM - 17 May 2017

Help Stop Voter Suppression in Wisconsin. Oppose Photo-ID Requirements for Voting
Wisconsin’s laws that require photo ID to vote disenfranchise voters. One study estimates it reduced turnout by 200,000 votes in 2016. This is unacceptable. We should be making it easier for eligible...

tammybaldwin.com

Baldwin says: "Voter turnout in 2016 was reduced by approx. 200,000 votes because of WI’s photo ID laws."
A report she cites from a Democratic candidate-supporting group says a decline in voter turnout between the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections in Wisconsin was entirely due to the state’s new photo identification requirement for voting.

But experts say that while photo ID requirements reduces turnout to some extent, they question the methodology of the report and say there is no way to put a number on how many people in Wisconsin didn’t vote because of the ID requirement.

We rate Baldwin’s statement Mostly False.
 
arlier this month, President Trump announced a commission to investigate voter fraud and suppression. Of course, the Democrats disagree with this initiative. It’s become a national pastime for the Left to label any measures to ensure accountability in our elections as racist. Photo ID laws are considered anathema to the Left, even eliciting commentaries that they represent a reconstituted Jim Crow era. In Wisconsin, Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin feels voter turnout was reduced by 200,000 because of the voter ID law. The problem is that it’s pretty much not true. Over to you Left-leaning Politifact:

Voter turnout in 2016 was reduced by approx. 200,000 votes because of WI’s photo ID laws. We need to oppose them: https://secure.tammybaldwin.com/EndVoterSuppression …

8:18 PM - 17 May 2017

Help Stop Voter Suppression in Wisconsin. Oppose Photo-ID Requirements for Voting
Wisconsin’s laws that require photo ID to vote disenfranchise voters. One study estimates it reduced turnout by 200,000 votes in 2016. This is unacceptable. We should be making it easier for eligible...

tammybaldwin.com

Baldwin says: "Voter turnout in 2016 was reduced by approx. 200,000 votes because of WI’s photo ID laws."
A report she cites from a Democratic candidate-supporting group says a decline in voter turnout between the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections in Wisconsin was entirely due to the state’s new photo identification requirement for voting.

But experts say that while photo ID requirements reduces turnout to some extent, they question the methodology of the report and say there is no way to put a number on how many people in Wisconsin didn’t vote because of the ID requirement.

We rate Baldwin’s statement Mostly False.
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Well its been shown that voter fraud happens so rarely that we can say it's irrelevant. That's been proven. So we don't need Trumps commission on voter fraud. It's a waste of time and taxpayer money.

Voter suppression was found to be a factor in the last election.
 
Well its been shown that voter fraud happens so rarely that we can say it's irrelevant. That's been proven. So we don't need Trumps commission on voter fraud. It's a waste of time and taxpayer money.

Voter suppression was found to be a factor in the last election.
This a flat out lie and if you didn't know that before you typed I will make it easy for you to not repeat it.
 
Well its been shown that voter fraud happens so rarely that we can say it's irrelevant. That's been proven. So we don't need Trumps commission on voter fraud. It's a waste of time and taxpayer money.

Voter suppression was found to be a factor in the last election.
This a flat out lie and if you didn't know that before you typed I will make it easy for you to not repeat it.

No it's not a lie.

Republican Gov. Scott Walker signed Wisconsin’s strict voter ID law in 2011, and it has been tied up in court battles for years. A federal court held that the law unconstitutionally burdens low-income people of color, but ultimately the Supreme Court allowed it to go into effect for the 2016 election.

In one of the many trials concerning the law, former government officials testified that behind closed doors, Republicans pushing for the voter ID were “politically frothing at the mouth” over the prospect that it would make it more difficult for people to cast ballots for Democrats.

Donald Trump won the state by fewer than 30,000 votes. According to the state’s own records, ten times that many eligible voters in the state — as many as 300,000 people — lacked the proper ID and may have been disenfranchised.
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In the final weeks leading up to the election, voting rights groups discovered that Wisconsin officials at local DMV offices were giving false information to voters attempting to get the proper ID, putting those officials in violation of a federal court order./

Now that was just in one state. Read the information then say something.

Republicans were wildly successful at suppressing voters in 2016

Republicans were wildly successful at suppressing voters in 2016
 

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