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Wisconsin Purging Voter Rolls Of Nearly A Quarter Million Improper Voters

A conservative group is forcing Wisconsin to remove upwards of 230,000 people from state voter rolls more than a year earlier than planned, a move that would disproportionately affect Democrats before the 2020 election.

The group behind the lawsuit, the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (known as Will), is a legal advocacy group that has backed conservative causes across the state since the beginning of the decade. Led by Rick Esenberg, Will has defended rollbacks on public sector union power, promoted charter schools, and challenged campaign finance restrictions among other issues.

Earlier this year, Wisconsin election officials sent out notices to about 234,000 people – 7% of registered voters in the state – suspected of changing home addresses this year. They planned on giving people until the spring of 2021 to confirm their registrations before they were removed. But on Friday, county circuit judge Paul Malloy sided with Will and ordered the state to remove the voters from the state’s rolls within 30 days.

Wisconsin officials are appealing the ruling. In a 3-3 split vote Monday, the Wisconsin Elections Commission declined to move forward with the removals, citing the pending appeal.

The dispute is the latest in a series of voting rights brawls in Wisconsin, considered one of the most important states in the upcoming presidential election. In recent years, Republicans drew electoral districts that severely benefitted their party, unsuccessfully tried to limit early voting, and implemented a strict voter ID law. The law discouraged as many as 23,252 people in the state from casting a ballot in 2016, one estimate found.

These tactics could sway elections in a state of close wins and losses. A Republican won a seat on the state supreme court by less than 6,000 votes in April. Governor Tony Evers, a Democrat, defeated Scott Walker by just under 30,000 votes last year. And Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton by a little over 22,000 votes in 2016.

“It’s over 200,000 voters who are affected. If even a small slice of them were deterred from voting in 2020, it could tip the outcome,” said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of its Elections Research Center. He added the people affected would be young people and those who live in cities – groups that tend to vote Democratic.

So if you live there and you’ve moved, you’d better get your registration updated and squared away ASAP.

There’s always going to be some crybabies claiming Raycis and Disenfranchisement. Tough titties, and that’s a BS argument. Every state in the country should be doing this, and doing it now. Furthermore, they should be working closely with coroners, funeral homes, hospitals, etc to unregister those who have passed away.

I’m all for it. Voting may be a right, but it doesn’t have to be an unchallenging one. Everyone should have to reregister every 5 years. Everyone should have a photo voter ID. Everyone ought to be run through the government databases to prove that they are eligible and that they are who they say they are. And if you have to be fingerprinted, so what? It’s not like any of us have any privacy anymore anyway, and your prints are probably already in one of the systems and you just don’t know it.

And while we’re at it, let’s have a big old investigation of Social Security and iii, to make sure that nobody who works for either place is doing naughty stuff on the sly. Like selling SSNs to illegals, or taking some cash money to purge an iii (which is the national criminal identification code).

As for redistricting, or gerrymandering as it’s usually called ... dump it. Use latitude and longitude for the most part, just jiggling things a bit to make the population areas a bit even. To hell with race; we’re all equal. And once they’re set, the districts don’t get redrawn for another 20 years.

One eligible citizen, one vote, in one place, during one lifetime. No cheating, no ballot box stuffing, no provisional voting, no dead people, felons, or foreigners voting. That’s the very basis of the foundation of a representative government the people can have faith in.

Posted by Drew458     on 12/19/2019 at 03:05 PM   
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