Aug 15, 2016

Donald Trump Is Encouraging Intimidation and Racial Profiling at the Polls

Voter obstruction is a reality, with or without Donald Trump. But Trump knows a valuable asset using whites against minority voters.

Ari Berman at The Nation has a critical piece, Donald Trump Is Encouraging Intimidation and Racial Profiling at the Polls.

At home in Wisconsin, our state has some 3,583 voting precincts.

In 2011, Wisconsin Republicans decided to name their polling workers across the state, (Barbour, Wisconsin State Journal.

No Republican need live in the district of the polling place at which they are assigned to harass targets of opportunity.

Take some 3,500 voting sites, harass and obstruct non-Republicans across the state and Republicans have a decent suppression regime.

Combine this effort with the many election law changes Republicans have enacted and the total suppression result is significant, (Ferral, The Capital Times), if not challenged.

Drip by drop, incursion by incursion, Wisconsin is changing before our eyes.

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