Posted on 09/12/2024 3:36:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
One of the most fiercely contested battlegrounds in this fall’s presidential race won’t remove more than 4 million ineligible names from its voter rolls.
“Wisconsin’s population is a little less than 6 million, with 3.5 million active voters,” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told The Daily Signal in a written statement. “So why do election officials refuse to clean up Wisconsin’s voter rolls and [instead] allow up to 4.1 million inactive voters to remain, with the potential for fraudulently using those names?”
Although Johnson and some other lawmakers contend that unpruned voter rolls create election security holes, the Wisconsin Elections Commission contends that it ensures proper recordkeeping and prevents fraud.
A website of the Wisconsin Elections Commission called Badger Voters numbers “all voters” in the state at 7.7 million. That’s a total of 3.5 million active voters and 4.19 million inactive voters.
Voters listed as “inactive” aren’t eligible to vote in Wisconsin. Residents who haven’t voted for four years and failed to respond to repeated notices from election officials are moved to the inactive list.
But Wisconsin keeps the names on the voter rolls, in contrast to many other states that delete ineligible names. If ineligible names were just deleted, the Wisconsin Elections Commission contends, “There would be no registration history, no participation history, and most importantly, no history of why a record became ineligible.”
But lawmakers contend that keeping the ineligible names on the rolls creates vulnerabilities.
Earlier this year, the former deputy director of the Milwaukee County Election Commission was sentenced to one year of probation and a $3,000 fine after she was convicted of charges in October 2022 that she obtained three absentee ballots and used fake names and Social Security numbers, The Associated Press reported.
The criminal complaint said she used her work-issued computer to obtain three military absentee ballots using fake names and Social Security numbers. Claiming she was trying to make a point, she sent the phony ballots to a Republican state representative.
“In Milwaukee County, an election official created voters but the Wisconsin Elections Commission says they have to keep those names on their list as inactive for metadata with an explanation of why they are inactive,” state Rep. Scott Krug, chairman of the House Campaign and Elections Committee, told The Daily Signal. “They aren’t even real people, but the WEC won’t take anyone off the voter rolls.”
Krug said state courts have sided with the election commission in the past.
“There has been a conflict over this for a few years about whether we as legislators can order the ineligible names to be removed,” Krug said. “Courts have said we cannot force the removal and it is at the discretion of the WEC.”
The Wisconsin Elections Commission referred The Daily Signal to its previous statements on the matter.
“There are two big reasons to retain the records of inactive, or ineligible, voters. First and foremost is that the law requires it. The retention of public records is essential to the maintenance of an open and transparent government,” the commission’s website says.
The commission says the second reason is that “to retain ineligible voter records is to safeguard against fraud.”
“The retention of voter history does not make it any easier to commit election fraud. It is no more difficult or easy to change a voter record than it is to create one from scratch. Instead, the retention of historical data helps to safeguard against abuse of the system,” the Wisconsin Elections Commission contends. “If ineligible records were destroyed, the state of Wisconsin would have no voting history. There would be no registration history, no participation history, and most importantly, no history of why a record became ineligible.”
The Associated Press has noted that if a voter’s address has changed, “Wisconsin voters can register online, by mail, in person at their local clerk’s office, or at the polls on the day of an election.”
The state has strong voter ID laws, which could counter these electron threats, noted Annette Olson, CEO of MacIver Institute, a Wisconsin think tank.
“The Wisconsin Elections Commission will not remove any of those names,” Olson told The Daily Signal. “There are people who are made up that are still on the voter rolls. They are not real. … As long as the [election] clerks enforce the voter ID laws, we should be in good hands.”
I’ll take “because they vote Democrat” for 200.
One of the problems from the past elections is that nobody filed a law suit to stop this garbage before the elections so the courts ruled that the theory of latches applied and people had no standing to sue after the election had occurred
Hopefully, this time around this will be corrected
Valid voters but fake ballots. There's part of your steal.
Take a few of them and tell them to lawyer up.
How I wish to God we had someone on our side who dwells in the underground computer world and would delete all those fraudulent names off the voter rolls! We have to start playing dirty or we’re never ever win anything again. We are fighting a demonic force machine they have all the components and the tools the only thing we have is our integrity thinking if we go out in full force and cast our votes we will win … It doesn’t work that way no more those days are long gone. America has changed unfortunately for the worse when it comes to voting and demonic forces rule this country and they will from here on get their own way. One reason Trump won in 2016 was because they got caught flat footed and in their black evil hearts they’re saying never again. Whatever it takes never again. These are evil evil evil people we are fighting! Gosh, how we desperately need white hats at this present time.
I live near Green Bay. I think that each state needs a law that would state that the voter registration form will ask for the address where the person was registered. Each county or city clerk should be required to contact that other jurisdiction and ask them to remove the person from their voter registration list. Within the past 5.5 years, I moved from NV to IL to WI. In Oct. 2022, I got emails and texts from Nevada and Illinois candidates, so I’m registered in three states. I could have requested absentee ballots from two states and voted in all three states, if I wanted to do that, but I didn’t do that.
I assume this is a rhetorical question.
It is of course to commit election fraud via vote fraud, like they did in 2020 in the middle of the night.
They have enough ballots ready to go to dump after the polls close and they see from returns how many they need to steal the election.
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Politely, not correct.
Its because certain key govt bodies and offices are democrat controlled. They opt not to enforce certain things.
If you can prove that nonexistant or dead voters are on the rolls it should be easy to document if they are voting. I don’t doubt that it is happening, but this should be documented.
It seems that everyone forgot about the Wisconsin election commissions illegal directives that encouraged illegal voting in nursing homes in the 2020 election. And they forgot that the police did an investigation where they found plenty of illegal activity. And that the police turned it all over to the FBI where it was never talked about again. And republicans and conservatives just forgot about it.
Silly question.
They plan to use them.
They can’t win if they don’t cheat.
Sort of like the debates.
BECAUSE each of them will vote at least 10 times for the D party machine ticket
the deceased ones will vote 1000 times
“So why do election officials refuse to clean up Wisconsin’s voter rolls and [instead] allow up to 4.1 million inactive voters to remain, with the potential for fraudulently using those names?”
Because those that run Dane & Milwaukee Counties are Socialist Democrats! They CANNOT win on ideas because all of their ‘Socialist Nirvana Ideas’ SUCK!
Nice that ‘Ron’ is finally getting around to this - a few weeks out! Ugh!
they need to be sued to do so apparently
Insane. It invites fraud, and yet… no other state has “standing” to sue them.
The question answers itself.
Because Supposed “R” Speaker Robin Vos is a rabid Never Trump and the head of RPW Brian Schimming is a clueless minion of Robin Vos-
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