Electoral Votes needed to win: 270.
Alabama: 9 Electoral Votes
Alabama, Where ID Is Required to Vote, Closes DMVs in Most “Black Belt” Counties
Arizona: 11 Electoral Votes
Arizona primary: Maricopa County had one polling site for every 21,000 voters
Florida: 29 Electoral Votes
How Florida’s Top Elections Official Just Made It Harder For College Students To Vote
Miami-Dade blocks voters standing in line from using the bathroom
The bogeyman at the ballot box: Voter fraud in Florida is largely a myth
Georgia: 16 Electoral Votes
Georgia County Admits To Illegally Disenfranchising Voters
50,000 Missing Georgia Voter-Registration Applications? Nothing to See Here
Indiana: 11 Electoral Votes
Voter ID laws reduce Indiana’s election turnout
Is Indiana’s strict voter ID law disenfranchising immigrant voters?
Iowa: 6 Electoral Votes
Ban on Voting Rights for Iowa Felons Upheld by State Supreme Court
Iowa Republican Spent $150,000 To Expose Voter Fraud, Instead Found Nothing Significant
Kansas: 6 Electoral Votes
A.C.L.U. Challenges Kansas Voter Law Requiring Proof of Citizenship
Kansas Voters Have 21 Days to Register if They Speak English, or 15 if They Speak Spanish
Kentucky: 8 Electoral Votes
Kentucky's New Governor Wastes No Time in Revoking Ex-Felons' Right to Vote
Voting’s Outcasts: Why One in Five Blacks in Kentucky Can’t Cast a Ballot
Louisiana: 8 Electoral Votes
House rejects bill to ease voting restrictions for felons
Foreign-Born Citizens in Louisiana Need Extra Paperwork to Vote
Michigan: 16 Electoral Votes
Michigan Considers Major New Restrictions On Voting Rights
Michigan: Where voters pay for their disenfranchisement
Mississippi: 6 Electoral Votes
Voter ID laws just decided an election in Mississippi
Mississippi voter ID law would disenfranchise black voters
Missouri: 10 Electoral Votes
GOP wants to change Missouri constitution for voter ID
Missouri House Republicans advance voter ID bills over Democratic opposition
Nebraska: 5 Electoral Votes
CHING: Nebraska voter ID bill creates problems for democracy
2012's Newest Voter Suppression Trend: Close Polling Places, Don't Tell Voters
Nevada: 6 Electoral Votes
Nevada Republicans Are Already Pushing A Voter ID Law After Gaining Control Of The State Capital
Voter Suppression Efforts Quietly Advance in Nevada
New Mexico: 5 Electoral Votes
House committee votes to advance voter ID legislation
New Mexico Congressman Agrees With Voter Suppression Tactics
New Mexico Voter Purge Tests Voter Psyche, May Suppress Turnout
North Carolina: 15 Electoral Votes
North Carolina Is Making It Harder for People to Vote, and We’re Pushing Back
North Carolina Republicans seek to suppress the college vote
Students Are Being Rejected From The Polls Because Of North Carolina’s Voter ID Law
Ohio: 18 Electoral Votes
Judge rules Ohio voter rights violated
Ohio Voting Restrictions Struck Down
Oklahoma: 7 Electoral Votes
State Law Allows Inactive Voters To Be Deleted From Database
Cherokee Nation Issue New Photo ID; Card Does Not Meet Oklahoma Voter ID Criteria
South Carolina: 9 Electoral Votes
Study Shows South Carolina Voter ID Law Hits Minorities Hardest, Violating Voting Rights Act
Tennessee: 11 Electoral Votes
Students sue over Tennessee voter ID law
The overlooked fight against voter ID in Tennessee
Texas: 38 Electoral Votes
A Texas law could disenfranchise 600,000 voters
Despite Federal Court Rulings, Texas' Voter ID Laws Remain In Place
Virginia: 13 Electoral Votes
Virginia Republicans to Challenge Restoration of Felon Voting Rights
Wisconsin: 10 Electoral Votes
Voter ID Nightmare: Up to 300,000 Wisconsin Voters Could Be Barred from Polls Thanks to Scott Walker
Total: 273 Electoral Votes
Donald Trump’s path to the Presidency is suppressing the vote.
Donald Trump’s path to the Presidency is not the conventional path portrayed by the political pundits. But it is one that could realistically lead him to victory.
While Republicans throughout the country are doing their utmost to distance themselves from the Trump Presidency, the fact of the matter is that it is their Republican policies of disenfranchisement to benefit their party that created a Trump Path to the Presidency in the first place. They didn’t do it to benefit Trump per se, but he stands to benefit from it regardless.
However, this path also provides us with a method to overcome it: making sure Democrats turnout as many voters as possible.
The key to leveraging this method is remembering that, when voters who would otherwise vote Democratic do not cast that ballot, it is not because they are lazy, complacent, uninformed, or inherently morally deficient in some way; it is because there is a concerted, motivated effort to prevent them from voting. While the list above is not comprehensive or completely up to date, it nevertheless illustrates the extents to which they have gone, and the multitude of avenues the Republican Party has pursued, to reach their overall goal of less voter participation, less of a democracy.
They are stealing our right to vote. And Democrats need to make this a part of their messaging, because it has been shown to be effective.
But while these laws may be disenfranchising some minority voters—many of whom support the Democratic Party—they also may be having the unintended consequence of angering many voters, mobilizing them to go to the polls and cast their ballot, according to a new University of Michigan study.
Both sides of the debate—the law and Republican claims about eliminating voter fraud—angered Democrats and increased their commitment to vote, the study shows. Meanwhile, Republicans were only mildly concerned about voter fraud, and that concern did not cause them to turn out at higher rates.
This anger that Democrats experienced about voter ID laws was also powerfully linked to participation among Democrats, but not Republicans.
It is hard to describe the Trump campaign without coming across words like fraud and deception. But a Trump Presidency, if even in the real of possibility, is practically predicated on it.