Fact Checker: Hillary Clinton’s claims about voter suppression in Georgia and Wisconsin
By Salvador Rizzo Salvador Rizzo Reporter for The Fact Checker Email Bio Follow March 6 at 3:00 AM “I was the first person who ran for president without the protection of the Voting Rights Act, and I will tell you, it makes a really big difference.
Some studies show that voter ID laws favored by Republicans have a deterrent effect, especially on minority voters, who tend to vote for Democrats. Wisconsin enacted a voter ID law before the 2016 election. A study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that the new requirements deterred thousands of eligible voters in two counties from casting ballots.
Wisconsin did enact a voter ID law under former governor Scott Walker . It requires voters to show a U.S. passport or a photo ID issued by Wisconsin state agencies, the military, Veterans Affairs, a university or college, or a federally recognized Indian tribe. Voter fraud cases are extremely rare in the United States. Experts say these voter ID laws are often attempts to tamp down the Democratic vote.
Mayer and researcher Michael DeCrescenzo surveyed 293 registered voters who didn’t vote in Dane and Milwaukee counties. That covers “the two largest metro areas in the state and have the largest low-income and minority populations, which research has shown are most likely to be affected by voter ID requirements.”
Here’s where things start to get hairy. Mother Jones interviewed Mayer about the study and paraphrased him making just such an extrapolation. The Mother Jones article may have given Clinton a mistaken impression, but we always warn politicians: You are responsible for the claims you make, so double check the facts. We also told Merrill what Mayer said and didn’t get a response.
Rick Hasen, an elections expert at the University of California at Irvine, noted that black voters in Milwaukee, which experienced a dramatic decline in turnout in 2016, were not motivated by Clinton the same way they were for President Barack Obama in 2008 or 2012. Moreover, there was a general decline in the black vote in 2016, compared with 2008 or 2012, both in states that had voter ID laws and states that did not.“The 40,000 number comes from the more conservative estimate,” Merrill said.
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