(The Center Square) – A Wisconsin group wants the Wisconsin Election Commission to answer more questions on how it maintains voter rolls.
The WEC recently responded to a list of seven questions from the U.S. Department of Justice to see if the group is complying with federal law and now the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty is asking follow-up questions to those responses.
WILL sent those questions to the DOJ, hoping it will lead to more questions from the authority.
The DOJ said in a June 15 letter that its inquiry came after several complaints that the election authority was not following the federal Help America Vote Act.
WILL questioned why the WEC uses a different process to match voter registrations with DMV information for online and mail-in or in-person registrations.
WEC said that the mail-in and in-person registrations have.a different process but did not describe the process.
“Even before WILL’s comprehensive review of the 2020 election, WILL has monitored WEC’s administration of our elections and taken action to correct problems,” WILL Deputy Counsel Lucas Vebber said in a statement. “Whether it’s WEC’s failure to properly maintain the statewide voter registration list, the use of drop boxes, the use of an unlawful voter registration form, the use of a mobile voting vans, we have seen a troubling pattern with how WEC administers elections – sometimes outside the scope of state and federal law.”
The group also asked why ineligible voters are not removed from the rolls and are instead changed to an “inactive” status.
“That raises concerns about when and how those ineligible voters can be moved back to active status and by whom,” WILL wrote. “WILL is calling on USDOJ to issue a follow-up inquiry to WEC to get to the bottom of that issue.”
WILL also noted that WEC appears to have not done anything to ensure non-citizens are not voting after a statewide referendum that requires someone to be a citizen to vote.
