On Wednesday afternoon, public officials in Wisconsin notified residents that more than 200,000 residents had been removed from voter rolls across the state.
State officials reportedly deactivated 174,307 voters registrations because those voters have not voted in four years and did not respond to a notice sent out in recent months. Voting officials claim they are required by law to identify registered voters who haven’t voted in the previous four years and deactivate them unless they wish to remain registered.
Also, state officials deactivated 31,854 voter registrations because those voters may have not voted and allegedly did not respond to a notice that was sent out in recent months.
“The WEC is working every day to help local election officials keep the registration lists current by identifying and removing deceased voters, people serving felony sentences, and others who are ineligible to vote,” Meagan Wolfe of the Wisconsin Elections Commission told The Hill.
Purging voter rolls has been a point of contention for the last two years. In 2020, conservatives filed a lawsuit demanding that thousands of residents be removed from voter rolls if they did not respond to a notice in 30 days. The lawsuit failed, but conservatives have pushed forward with efforts to purge thousands of voters from voting rolls across the state.
?ALERT: Wisconsin election officials remove over 205,000 voters from rolls. Purging potentially eligible voters has been a goal of conservatives in the swing state, with multiple lawsuits filed to deactivate voter registrations this year and last. https://t.co/V7um5cgtHp
— Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) August 4, 2021
