2016 United States presidential election

=== Voting rights ===
The 2016 presidential election was the first in 50 years without all the protections of the original [[Voting Rights Act]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Berman |first1=Ari |website=The Nation |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/the-gops-attack-on-voting-rights-was-the-most-under-covered-story-of-2016/ |title=The GOP's Attack on Voting Rights Was the Most Under-Covered Story of 2016 |date=November 9, 2016 |access-date=November 14, 2018 |archive-date=December 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214200203/https://www.thenation.com/article/the-gops-attack-on-voting-rights-was-the-most-under-covered-story-of-2016/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Fourteen states had [[Voter suppression in the United States#2016 presidential election|new voting restrictions in place]], including swing states such as Virginia and Wisconsin.<ref>{{cite web |website=Brennan Center for Justice |url=https://www.brennancenter.org/new-voting-restrictions-america |title=New Voting Restrictions in America}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |website=The Nation |title=Wisconsin's Voter-ID Law Suppressed 200,000 Votes in 2016 (Trump Won by 22,748); A new study shows how voter-ID laws decreased turnout among African-American and Democratic voters |date=May 9, 2017 |last1=Berman |first1=Ari |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/wisconsins-voter-id-law-suppressed-200000-votes-trump-won-by-23000/ |access-date=November 14, 2018 |archive-date=January 15, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200115013709/https://www.thenation.com/article/wisconsins-voter-id-law-suppressed-200000-votes-trump-won-by-23000/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Green |first1=Matthew |website=[[KQED Inc.|KQED]] |url=https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2016/11/08/how-to-navigate-americas-perplexing-patchwork-of-voting-laws/ |title=MAP: States With New Voting Restrictions in Place for the 2016 Presidential Election |date=November 8, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Milligan |first1=Susan |website=U.S. News & World Report |title=I (Wish I) Voted: Recent changes to voting rights impact elections |date=April 1, 2016 |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2016-04-01/voting-restrictions-are-impacting-elections}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Berry |first1=Deborah Barfield |website=[[USA Today]] |date=January 29, 2016 |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/01/29/new-state-voting-laws-face-first-presidential-election-test/79534420/ |title=New state voting laws face first presidential election test}}</ref>