Posted on 02/28/2020 7:01:16 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The Wisconsin Appeals Court has overturned a ruling that sought to purge more than 200,000 people from state voter rolls, according to court documents.
“In interpreting the Wisconsin Statutes, courts may not rewrite the plain language of the statutes the legislature has enacted,” the appeals court said. “Acceptance of the arguments of Plaintiffs would cause us to rewrite statutes enacted by the legislature, and that we cannot do.” It added that the ruling has been “reversed, and this matter is remanded to the circuit court for dismissal of plaintiffs’ complaint.”
The conservative group that filed the lawsuit, Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, wrote that it will plan to appeal the ruling to the state’s Supreme Court.
“Wisconsin deserves clean elections in 2020. It is our intent to seek review in the Wisconsin Supreme Court to ensure that the Wisconsin Elections Commission complies with state law,” said group spokesperson Rick Esenberg in a statement.
The suit argued that the state election commission broke the law when it didn’t remove people from the voter rolls who didn’t respond within 30 days in October to indicate that they’ve moved. The agency said it was going to wait until after the November 2020 election before any voter was removed.
The appeals court also vacated an order from the same judge that found the Wisconsin Elections Commission in contempt for not moving ahead with the voter roll purge. The case was sent back to the lower court and ordered it to be dismissed, reported The Associated Press.
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needs to go to wi supreme ct.
And quickly.
So many courts have been infiltrated with corrupt judges. This is pure insanity. Elections are nothing but fraud now.
America is being hijacked by pimps on the bench. Incompetent perverts who couldn’t hold a real job if their lives depended on it.
At the conclusion of every election...the entire listing of voters should be completely purged, thus requiring you to show up at the county court house and present yourself (with an ID and some form to show you live there in the county).
Simply put, we are living in lawless times. What is our “legitimate” recourse when the law makers and the law keepers are the law breakers?
Yes, and actually show up to a county election clerks office or court office. No more ticking a box on a DMV form when you renew your car registration.
When I turned 18, I walked into my county’s election office and filled out the form to be registered. I also think that election rolls should be regularly purged.
If you have to show up once per year to register your vehicle, there’s no reason you shouldn’t have to re-register periodically to vote.
Obviously the Democrat Party has decided that their wanted ends is justified by any means. You know, the same philosophy they used to teach American school children what the NAZIS used?
Once our country is taken over by the Socialists because of corrupt judges, all bets are off.
Do I smell corruption, political or otherwise?
Post 6
Yes indeed. Purge the entire roll.
Lefty judges don’t want the game exposed.
Hebrews 11:6 to mosesdapoet
That report should contain a summary of the content of the what the judges ruled both pro and con
FROM AP’S ARTICLE:
“The voter purge lawsuit argued that the state elections commission broke the law when it did not remove voters from the rolls who did not respond within 30 days to a mailing in October indicating they may have moved. The commission wanted to wait until after the November 2020 presidential election before removing anyone because of inaccuracies found while previously attempting to identify voters who may have moved.
“The appeals court said in its unanimous decision that the law in question does not refer to the Elections Commission or give any duties to it related to deactivating voters. The commission had argued that the power to do that rests with local election clerks and the appeals court agreed.
““In interpreting the Wisconsin Statutes, courts may not rewrite the plain language of the statutes the legislature has enacted,” the appeals court said. “Acceptance of the arguments of Plaintiffs would cause us to rewrite statutes enacted by the legislature, and that we cannot do.””
and their names
FROM AP’S ARTICLE:
“A three-judge panel in the 4th District of the appeals court — Michael Fitzpatrick, JoAnne Kloppenburg and Jennifer Nashold — issued Friday’s ruling. Nashold was elected to the court last year after running unopposed. Fitzpatrick also ran unopposed and was first elected in 2017. Kloppenburg has been on the appeals court since 2012 and also ran unsuccessfully twice for the state Supreme Court with Democratic support.”
Not “voters”; “voter names”.
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