I. Voter Suppression
-Voting Restriction Bills - Since 2011, state legislators have introduced 545 voting restriction bills, 40 of which have become law. Seventeen states have tougher voting laws in place for 2016 than they did in 2012.
-1.2M - Voter ID laws in three states -- Texas, Wisconsin and North Carolina -- could block up to 1.2 million voters from casting ballots.
-10% - Latinos instates with strict voter ID laws are 10 percent less likely to vote than those in states without such laws.
-6M - As a result of their criminal records, 6 million Americans cannot vote in this year's elections.
-38% - Of those 6 million, 38 percent are black.
-390K - On the positive side, over the past year, four states restored voting rights to 390,000 people who've served time for criminal convictions.
-27 - In 2016, 27 bills have been introduced in 15 states to give ex-inmates the right to vote.
-Voter Fraud Allegations - Of the more than 1 billion ballots cast from 2000 to 2014, there were only 31 documented incidents of voter fraud. A person is at least 15 times more likely to die of constipation than commit voter fraud. (Source for above: Edwin Rios, "Block the Vote," Mother Jones, July/August, 2016).
II. Brexit
-53.4% - Voters in England who chose "Leave".
- 52.5% - Voters in Wales who chose "Leave".
-62% - Voters in Scotland who chose "Remain". A day after the Brexit vote, Donald Trump arrived in Scotland and congratulated the Scottish people for voting to leave the EU and taking their country back.
-55.8% - Voters in Northern Ireland who chose "Remain". (Source for above: "Brexit by the Numbers," The Nation, July 18/25, 2016).
III. Weird Beliefs of Trump Supporters
-According to a recent survey by Public Policy Polling, of those with a favorable view of Donald Trump:
65% believe President Obama is a Muslim.
59% believe he was not born in the United States.
24% believe Justice Antonin Scalia was murdered.
IV. Changes in News Consumption
According to the Pew Research Center's "State of the News Media 2016" report, the following are some changes in how Americans consume news:
-7% - Drop in daily newspaper circulation in 2015.
-2% - Drop in magazine subscriptions in 2015.
21% - Americans who have listened to a podcast in the past month.
44% - Americans who get their information about the election from social-networking sites, compared to just 17% in 2012.
65% - Americans who get their information about the election from digital sources, compared to 36% in 2012.
25% - Amount of newspaper ad revenue that come from digital sources in 2015.
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