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Completed Wisconsin recount widens Donald Trump's lead by 131 votes
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<blockquote data-quote="aachen_hexagon" data-source="post: 70557613" data-attributes="member: 393304"><p>I believe a split decision at the Supreme court <em>effectively upholds the lower court ruling</em>.</p><p></p><p>"With an eight-justice court, a majority decision requires a 5-3 vote. If the supreme court is deadlocked 4-4, the lower court’s decision in the case is upheld but it does not create a legal precedent" (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/feb/14/supreme-court-vote-eight-justices-deadlock-nomination-scalia-obama" target="_blank">SOURCE</a>)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>An analysis found 28 cases of voter fraud convictions since 2000, 3.6% were voter impersonation. (<a href="http://votingrights.news21.com/interactive/election-fraud-database/index.html" target="_blank">SOURCE</a>)</p><p></p><p>Further: "African-Americans and Latinos are more likely to lack one of these qualifying IDs, according to several estimates. Even when the state offers a free photo ID, these voters, who are disproportionately low-income, may not be able to procure the underlying documents, such as a birth certificate, to obtain one." (<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/why-voter-id-laws-arent-really-about-fraud/" target="_blank">SOURCE</a>)</p><p></p><p>GAO analysis found that voter turnout dropped among African Americans in Tennessee and Kansas after Voter ID's laws were put in place (<a href="http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-14-634" target="_blank">SOURCE</a>)</p><p></p><p>Again, PBS: "Courts have so far blocked three ID laws. A state judge struck down Pennsylvania’s law earlier this year, <strong>determining that it discriminated against low-income and minority voters</strong>. Two weeks ago, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked Wisconsin’s from taking effect for this election, and last week, a state court declared Arkansas’ voter ID law unconstitutional. Lawsuits are currently pending against similar laws in North Carolina and Alabama, though they won’t be decided before the November elections." (emphasis added)</p><p></p><p>Conservative judge Richard Posner had this to say about the Voter ID laws: “[they] appear to be aimed at limiting voting by minorities, particularly blacks.” (<a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1312285/posner.pdf" target="_blank">SOURCE</a>)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aachen_hexagon, post: 70557613, member: 393304"] I believe a split decision at the Supreme court [I]effectively upholds the lower court ruling[/I]. "With an eight-justice court, a majority decision requires a 5-3 vote. If the supreme court is deadlocked 4-4, the lower court’s decision in the case is upheld but it does not create a legal precedent" ([URL='https://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/feb/14/supreme-court-vote-eight-justices-deadlock-nomination-scalia-obama']SOURCE[/URL]) An analysis found 28 cases of voter fraud convictions since 2000, 3.6% were voter impersonation. ([URL='http://votingrights.news21.com/interactive/election-fraud-database/index.html']SOURCE[/URL]) Further: "African-Americans and Latinos are more likely to lack one of these qualifying IDs, according to several estimates. Even when the state offers a free photo ID, these voters, who are disproportionately low-income, may not be able to procure the underlying documents, such as a birth certificate, to obtain one." ([URL='http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/why-voter-id-laws-arent-really-about-fraud/']SOURCE[/URL]) GAO analysis found that voter turnout dropped among African Americans in Tennessee and Kansas after Voter ID's laws were put in place ([URL='http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-14-634']SOURCE[/URL]) Again, PBS: "Courts have so far blocked three ID laws. A state judge struck down Pennsylvania’s law earlier this year, [B]determining that it discriminated against low-income and minority voters[/B]. Two weeks ago, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked Wisconsin’s from taking effect for this election, and last week, a state court declared Arkansas’ voter ID law unconstitutional. Lawsuits are currently pending against similar laws in North Carolina and Alabama, though they won’t be decided before the November elections." (emphasis added) Conservative judge Richard Posner had this to say about the Voter ID laws: “[they] appear to be aimed at limiting voting by minorities, particularly blacks.” ([URL='https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1312285/posner.pdf']SOURCE[/URL]) [/QUOTE]
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