(The Center Square) – The Wisconsin Elections Commission must check the state’s voter rolls against information from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, a Waukesha County judge ruled.
The state’s election authority must check voter registration information with state identification information to ensure the voter rolls are accurate.
“WEC is failing in the most basic task of ensuring that only lawful voters make it to the voter roll from where lawful votes are cast,” Circuit Court Judge Michael P. Maxwell wrote.
Wisconsin voters approved a constitutional amendment that requires only citizens can vote in elections last November.
Election officials claimed that they could not check the voter rolls against WisDOT information previously.
“Shockingly, the agency that Wisconsin’s citizens rely upon to ensure the integrity of our electoral process claims Wisconsin statutes ‘do not require the Commission to prevent non-U.S.citizens from appearing on the list or to remove non-U.S. citizens from the list,’” Maxwell wrote. “WEC is wrong. Wisconsin statutes are replete with requirements that only lawful voters are allowed to cast a vote.”
Groups such as the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty have been pushing the state to do check the voter rolls.
“Wisconsin voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment to ensure that only citizens can vote in our elections,” WILL Research Director Will Flanders told The Center Square. “To ensure that promise is being fulfilled, the state should move forward with an audit of its voter rolls to confirm that non-citizens are not voting, whether it is conducted by WEC, the Governor, or the Legislative Audit Bureau. We are reviewing the ruling and its impact and will be closely following the likely appeal process.”
WILL recently wrote to the U.S. Department of Justice asking the department to find out why WEC said that it uses a different process to match voter registrations with DMV information for online and mail-in or in-person registrations.
