Milwaukee, where COVID's hitting black neighborhoods the hardest, cut its polling places from 180 down to five. Now thousands of voters are forced to wait in hours-long lines while risking their health.



This is the culmination of every dirty trick in the GOP’s playbook.



THREAD.

After sweeping into power in 2011, the Wisconsin GOP launched a full-fledged gerrymandering campaign, and their new maps worked exactly as intended.



In the 2012 elections, Republicans won 48.6% of the votes, but took 61% of the seats in the legislature.

Immediately following the GOP takeover of the Wisconsin government, the legislature passed a strict voter-ID law that reduced black and Latino voting, resulting in 200,000 fewer voters in 2016 than in 2012.



For context, Trump won Wisconsin in 2016 by fewer than 23,000 votes.