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PBS Frontline- “Whose Vote Counts”
1. What state’s April primary that would be a dress rehearsal for the November election?
2. How many votes did Donald Trump win Wisconsin by in 2016?
3. What is the issue with on-person voting in April?
4. Why did Wisconsin move forward with in-person voting even though the governor opposed it?
5. What areas of Wisconsin were being hit the hardest by the virus?
6. With constituents at risk for in-person voting, what did Democrats begin pushing?
7. Why is the Wisconsin Supreme Court race so important?
8. Why did Republican oppose loosening absentee ballot rules in Wisconsin?
9. What obstacles did black voters face in post-Civil War America?
10. What event in 1967 was a turning point that quickly led to the Voting Rights Act?
11. By 1968, how many black people had been elected to office across the South? By 1985?
12. What party swept the 2010 mid-term elections?
13. In Wisconsin, what groups were twice as likely not to have ID?
14. According to Hans von Spakovsky, does voter Id laws suppress voting?
15. What did the 2013 Supreme Court decision in favor of Shelby county allow southern states to do?
16. Milwaukee decreased their in-person voting locations from 180 to how many?
17. When did the Wisconsin governor sign an executive order to post-pone the April 7 election?
18. What was the result of the governor attempting to post-pone the election?
19. How long did it take for ballots to be counted?
20. How many Wisconsin voters had their ballots rejected?
21. Why were some of these ballots rejected?
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1. Wisconsin
2. 22,000
3. The coronavirus pandemic
4. The Republican led legislature wanted to hold in-person voting
5. Densely populated democratic cities with large minority populations
6. An absentee ballot drive
7. Wisconsin is a swing state, and any litigation of the results will go to the Wisconsin Supreme Court
8. Feared increased absentee ballots would favor Democrats
9. Violence, poll taxes, literacy tests, and Grandfather clauses
10. Selma March, Bloody Sunday
11. 385, 4,000
12. Republicans
13. Black and Hispanic
14. No
15. States could change voter laws without federal oversight and approval
16. Five
17. The day before the election
18. Republicans sued; Wisconsin Supreme Court voted to keep election on April 7
19. 1 week
20. Over 23,000
21. Not filled out correctly, post-dated after election day