Posted on 01/13/2020 6:31:53 PM PST by karpov
A Wisconsin judge held three state election commissioners in contempt on Monday and ordered them to proceed immediately with purging more than 200,000 people from the states voter rolls.
The ruling by Judge Paul V. Malloy of Ozaukee County Circuit Court doubled down on his finding last month that thousands of voters who are believed to have moved should have their registrations canceled in Wisconsin, a narrowly divided state that has become a focal point of the 2020 presidential battle.
The debate over whether voters should be purged from the rolls has become a proxy for the states tense partisan divide, and the purge itself has yet to be carried out because of a deadlock between evenly split Democratic and Republican wings of the Wisconsin Elections Commission. Three Republicans on the appointed six-member commission want to remove the voters, while the three Democrats wanted to wait for an appellate court to weigh in.
Were deadlocked, time is running and time is clearly of the essence, Judge Malloy said.
Hours later, on Monday evening, the Wisconsin Supreme Court issued a ruling that cleared the way for Judge Malloys decision that the rolls should be purged to stand.
The debate has drawn intense attention in part because it has played out in a state that could tip this years presidential election. President Trump, who plans to campaign in Milwaukee on Tuesday, carried Wisconsin by fewer than 23,000 votes in 2016.
Conservatives said getting outdated information removed from the rolls was necessary to have clean registration lists and election integrity. Many liberals saw the effort as a blatant attempt to disqualify and confuse voters who would be likely to support Democratic candidates.
People who are removed from the rolls in error could re-register before or on Election Day.
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Libs say that voters most easily confused most likely vote RAT.
They know their own base better than anyone.
Judges make a difference.
The 2020 election is going to see a level of voter fraud never seen before in this country. The Democrats have stated that they intend to “harvest” absentee voters ballots in ways never before seen.
They will be doing it to both try to secure the House of Representatives for their party and to secure a Presidential candidate for their party.
I told my wife that when I pass, to make sure I’m taken off the voter roll. I don’t EVER want to vote communist RAT, especially after I’m dead.
I feel the same way about Michigan! WWG1WGA!
The panel is deadlocked - names will remain. libs win.
The rats hate when they get caught with their hands in the cookie jar, how dare you!
Yeah...gotta keep slapping their hands!
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