Originally Posted by Ted Remington
How did the GOP cheat?
In another thread I set it out in more detail. Voter suppression in Florida, North Carolina (with surgical precision), Ohio and Wisconsin was sufficient to skew the electoral college. Papers will be written on it.
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On Election Day, there were 868 fewer polling places in states with a long history of voting discrimination, like Arizona, Texas, and North Carolina. These changes impacted hundreds of thousands of voters, yet received almost no coverage. In North Carolina, as my colleague Joan Walsh reported, black turnout decreased 16 percent during the first week of early voting because “in 40 heavily black counties, there were 158 fewer early polling places.”
The GOP’s Attack on Voting Rights Was the Most Under-Covered Story of 2016 - The Nation.

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Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich