Voter ID laws are a brilliant redirect by people who want to reduce the number of people voting. It sounds so reasonable: you need an id to buy alcohol, or open a bank account, so why not for voting. However by making a state issued drivers license the only acceptable form of ID and then making it difficult to obtain one, you make it harder to actually vote. Getting a state issued ID for someone who is poor, has to work during the hours the office is open, or lives far away from an ID office erects another hurdle on the way to the voting place. There are also reports of huge purges of voter rolls.
There are also many reports of reduced polling locations, limited machines, long lines, and “malfunctions” in predominately democratic districts, while neighboring districts have no such problems.
What is especially insidious about all of this is that the federal government is remiss in enforcing voting rights and the media could care less. In the end the cheaters are getting away with it and no one seems to care.
There are all of these different narratives of why Trump won; People didn’t like Clinton, all of his free media coverage, people wanted a change, Clinton’s campaign sucked etc. This is all BS. Trump and the republicans won because they were able to get away with rigging the electoral system in their favor. Full stop.
