Judge orders 234,000 purged from Wisconsin v**er rolls

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PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. – An Wisconsin judge on Friday ordered the state to remove hundreds of thousands of people from Wisconsin's v**er rolls because they may have moved.
The case is being closely watched because of the state's critical role in next year's p**********l race. Ozaukee County Judge Paul Malloy also denied the League of Women V**ers of Wisconsin's petition to intervene.
Lawyers for the League and for the Wisconsin E******ns Commission indicated they will appeal and asked Malloy to stay his ruling pending those appeals, but he declined.
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At issue is a letter the state E******ns Commission sent in October to about 234,000 v**ers who it believes may have moved. The letter asked the v**ers to update their v***r r**********ns if they had moved or alert e******n officials if they were still at their same address.
The commission planned to remove the letter's recipients from the v**er rolls in 2021 if it hadn't heard from them. But Malloy's decision would kick them off the rolls much sooner, and well before the 2020 p**********l e******n.
Before Friday's hearing, Democratic statet Attorney General Josh Kaul said in an interview that quickly removing v**ers from the rolls would cause "clear harm to Wisconsin v**ers." That's because some people who haven't moved would likely lose their ability to v**e, at least for the time being.
"Any time people have to go through extra steps to v**e, and certainly re-registering is a significant additional step, the result is that fewer people end up v****g," he said. "Fewer people will be registered. A number of people will have to re-register."
Three v**ers sued the commission last month with the help of the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty. They argued e******n officials were required to remove v**ers from the rolls 30 days after sending the letters if they hadn't heard from them.
They asked Malloy to issue an injunction that would require e******n officials to purge their rolls. Kaul, commissioners and others say that would lead to some people getting knocked off the rolls who shouldn't be.
But Malloy went further than issuing an injunction. In granting a writ of mandamus – essentially a court order that a government official or agency do its job – he said he was convinced the commission had a clear, positive, plain legal duty to purge the v**er rolls within 30 days.

"I don't want to see someone deactivated, but I don't write the law," said Malloy, who was appointed to the bench in 2002 by Republican Gov. Scott McCallum and has been re-elected by v**ers.
He said the commission didn't like the policy so it set a new one without following a formal rule-making procedure that would have included notice to the public and a chance for input.
"There's no basis for saying 12 to 24 months is a good time frame. It's not that difficult to do it sooner," he said near the end of a two-hour hearing. "If you don't like (it), you have to go back to the Legislature."
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers on Twitter railed against the ruling.
"I won the race for governor by less than 30,000 v**es," he wrote. "This move pushed by Republicans to remove 200,000 Wisconsinites from the v**er rolls is just another attempt at overriding the will of the people and stifling the democratic process."
E******ns officials sent the letters based on information compiled by the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, a coalition of 28 states and Washington, D.C., that tries to keep v**er rolls as accurate as possible.
ERIC f**gs v**ers who file address changes with the post office or register vehicles at new addresses.
The E******ns Commission, which consists of three Democrats and three Republicans, doesn't want to immediately remove people from the v**er rolls because in some cases their information is faulty and the v**ers haven't moved. For instance, people could be f**gged as having moved if they registered a vehicle at a business address instead of their home address.
V**ers who are removed from the v**er rolls, whether correctly or mistakenly, can regain the ability to cast b****ts by re-registering online, at their clerk's office or at the polls on e******n day.
Of the 234,000 letters that were sent, about 60,000 were returned as undeliverable as of Dec. 5, according to the E******ns Commission. As of then, about 2,300 recipients of the letters said they continued to live at their address and about 16,500 had registered to v**e at new addresses.
Wisconsin is perhaps the most heavily targeted state in the 2020 p**********l e******n. Republican Donald Trump narrowly won the state in 2016 after it went to Democrats in p**********l e******ns for decades.
The letters went to about 7% of Wisconsin's registered v**ers, but were concentrated more heavily in some parts of the state than others.
Milwaukee and Madison – the state's Democratic strongholds – account for 14% of Wisconsin's registered v**ers but received 23% of the letters.
Across the state, 55% of the letters went to municipalities where Democrat Hillary Clinton out-polled Trump in 2016.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Judge orders 234,000 purged from Wisconsin v**er rolls

Liberty..don't forget we also know dead dimocrat v**ers normally find it somewhat difficult to relocate and/or v**e elsewhere, because most of them have no car and/or the means to travel outside of their normal districts (to v**e). On a side note occasionally a bunch of these (dead or believed lost) dimocrats will band together and try to escape..typically by all climbing into a big bag/box which someone has intentionally hidden in the trunk of one of their 'organizers' and/or 'sponsors' vehicles. Then they will just patiently ride around until there's an opportunity to escape. What typically happens though, is this sponsor travels from district to district (never noticing this bag/box of dead v**ers patiently and quietly hiding in the trunk). Then this sponsor arrives in a district that doesn't have enough dimocrats in it to win the contest..so this organizer graciously volunteers to look high and low for some new and fresh dimocrat v**ers (who may have been previously missed and/or ignored). During their search they open their trunk..and low and behold, what do they find hiding??? Why gollegeewillikers..there's a whole bag of dimocrat v**es hiding out..just begging to be included wherever they're needed. Typically (in these type of discoveries) there's just enough dim v**es to win this particular contest, too. After their (exuberant) victory celebrations are over, these happy sponsors/oranizers will then arrange for the whole lot of these dim v**es get reassigned permanently to this new location... This is a very normal occurrence in states like Florida...

Judge orders 234,000 purged from Wisconsin v**er rolls

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PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. – An Wisconsin judge on Friday ordered the state to remove hundreds of thousands of people from Wisconsin's v**er rolls because they may have moved.
The case is being closely watched because of the state's critical role in next year's p**********l race. Ozaukee County Judge Paul Malloy also denied the League of Women V**ers of Wisconsin's petition to intervene.
Lawyers for the League and for the Wisconsin E******ns Commission indicated they will appeal and asked Malloy to stay his ruling pending those appeals, but he declined.
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At issue is a letter the state E******ns Commission sent in October to about 234,000 v**ers who it believes may have moved. The letter asked the v**ers to update their v***r r**********ns if they had moved or alert e******n officials if they were still at their same address.
The commission planned to remove the letter's recipients from the v**er rolls in 2021 if it hadn't heard from them. But Malloy's decision would kick them off the rolls much sooner, and well before the 2020 p**********l e******n.
Before Friday's hearing, Democratic statet Attorney General Josh Kaul said in an interview that quickly removing v**ers from the rolls would cause "clear harm to Wisconsin v**ers." That's because some people who haven't moved would likely lose their ability to v**e, at least for the time being.
"Any time people have to go through extra steps to v**e, and certainly re-registering is a significant additional step, the result is that fewer people end up v****g," he said. "Fewer people will be registered. A number of people will have to re-register."
Three v**ers sued the commission last month with the help of the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty. They argued e******n officials were required to remove v**ers from the rolls 30 days after sending the letters if they hadn't heard from them.
They asked Malloy to issue an injunction that would require e******n officials to purge their rolls. Kaul, commissioners and others say that would lead to some people getting knocked off the rolls who shouldn't be.
But Malloy went further than issuing an injunction. In granting a writ of mandamus – essentially a court order that a government official or agency do its job – he said he was convinced the commission had a clear, positive, plain legal duty to purge the v**er rolls within 30 days.

"I don't want to see someone deactivated, but I don't write the law," said Malloy, who was appointed to the bench in 2002 by Republican Gov. Scott McCallum and has been re-elected by v**ers.
He said the commission didn't like the policy so it set a new one without following a formal rule-making procedure that would have included notice to the public and a chance for input.
"There's no basis for saying 12 to 24 months is a good time frame. It's not that difficult to do it sooner," he said near the end of a two-hour hearing. "If you don't like (it), you have to go back to the Legislature."
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers on Twitter railed against the ruling.
"I won the race for governor by less than 30,000 v**es," he wrote. "This move pushed by Republicans to remove 200,000 Wisconsinites from the v**er rolls is just another attempt at overriding the will of the people and stifling the democratic process."
E******ns officials sent the letters based on information compiled by the Electronic Registration Information Center, or ERIC, a coalition of 28 states and Washington, D.C., that tries to keep v**er rolls as accurate as possible.
ERIC f**gs v**ers who file address changes with the post office or register vehicles at new addresses.
The E******ns Commission, which consists of three Democrats and three Republicans, doesn't want to immediately remove people from the v**er rolls because in some cases their information is faulty and the v**ers haven't moved. For instance, people could be f**gged as having moved if they registered a vehicle at a business address instead of their home address.
V**ers who are removed from the v**er rolls, whether correctly or mistakenly, can regain the ability to cast b****ts by re-registering online, at their clerk's office or at the polls on e******n day.
Of the 234,000 letters that were sent, about 60,000 were returned as undeliverable as of Dec. 5, according to the E******ns Commission. As of then, about 2,300 recipients of the letters said they continued to live at their address and about 16,500 had registered to v**e at new addresses.
Wisconsin is perhaps the most heavily targeted state in the 2020 p**********l e******n. Republican Donald Trump narrowly won the state in 2016 after it went to Democrats in p**********l e******ns for decades.
The letters went to about 7% of Wisconsin's registered v**ers, but were concentrated more heavily in some parts of the state than others.
Milwaukee and Madison – the state's Democratic strongholds – account for 14% of Wisconsin's registered v**ers but received 23% of the letters.
Across the state, 55% of the letters went to municipalities where Democrat Hillary Clinton out-polled Trump in 2016.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Judge orders 234,000 purged from Wisconsin v**er rolls