41K Wisconsin voter registrations don’t match driver, ID database
A report reveals that over 41,000 Wisconsin voter registrations do not match data from the state’s Department of Transportation (DOT) databases,nearly doubling the number from 2020. These discrepancies include registrations missing driver’s license numbers adn mismatched names compared to DOT records. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL), which obtained the data, stressed that this does not prove fraudulent voting but called for greater openness and description from the wisconsin Election Commission (WEC) about these inconsistencies.WILL has urged federal authorities to investigate and questioned why the vetting processes differ between online and paper voter registrations. Meanwhile, a judge ruled the WEC must verify voter registration data against state ID records to maintain accurate voter rolls, though implementation is pending a hearing. The WEC stated that online registrations are blocked if key information does not match but uses a different process for paper registrations.
41K Wisconsin voter registrations don’t match driver, ID database
(The Center Square) – An increasing number of Wisconsin voter registration information does not match information from the state’s Department of Transportation.
There are more than 41,000 voter registrations in the state without matching Department of Transportation records, such as driver’s licenses or identification cards, a number that is nearly double the total from 2020, according to Wisconsin Election Commission data acquired by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty.
The data is required by the Help America Vote Act, but WILL was denied further information from the databases to verify what the specific discrepancies were.
They include 11,174 registrations without a driver’s license number, up from 4,885 in 2020, and 24,733 cases where a name does not fully match WisDOT information, up from 15,260 in 2020.
“We’re not in any way saying that these 40,000 votes were fraudulent votes,” Lucas Vebber, deputy counsel for the WILL, told The Center Square. “We don’t know that. We don’t even know if these 40,000 names were even voters in the election. We know that they’re on the voter registration list and it’s certainly likely, of course, that some of them voted.
“But we don’t know because we don’t know who voted, and we don’t know what all the discrepancies are. It could be something innocuous, it could be something more serious. But our point in the letter is just saying this is serious enough that questions need to be answered, and we need a little more transparency here from the government.”
WILL sent a follow-up letter to the U.S. Department of Justice on the issue after urging the department earlier this fall to take a deeper look at the issue.
A Waukesha County judge ruled in an unrelated case earlier this month that the WEC must check voter registration information with state identification information to ensure the voter rolls are accurate, but a stay was placed on that ruling until the results of a hearing scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on Friday.
The WEC data showed that the name and date of birth don’t match on 680 registrations, just the date of birth doesn’t match on 3,110, and there were no WisDOT matches found for 2,069 registrations.
WILL has urged the WEC to explain why it has different processes to vet online voter registration information than hand-written forms.
“What are they doing to ensure the integrity of our voter registration list?” Vebber said. “That’s a really good question for WEC. If they have this information, then they are aware of this discrepancy. What are they doing with it? We’d like to know.”
WEC has said that online registrations are blocked if information does not match, such as a voter’s name, date of birth, license number, or residency, but it simply said that a separate process is used for paper registrations.
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