{"id":1646216,"date":"2022-09-18T15:49:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T19:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1646216"},"modified":"2022-09-18T15:50:16","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T19:50:16","slug":"fate-of-wisconsins-use-of-private-vendor-to-maintain-voter-roll-on-the-line-after-citizens-file-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fate-of-wisconsins-use-of-private-vendor-to-maintain-voter-roll-on-the-line-after-citizens-file-complaint\/","title":{"rendered":"Fate of Wisconsin\u2019s Use of Private Vendor to Maintain Voter Roll on the Line After Citizens File Complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffate-of-wisconsins-use-of-private-vendor-to-maintain-voter-roll-on-the-line-after-citizens-file-complaint%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1646216&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A citizen group filed a complaint with\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-wisconsin-elections-commission\">Wisconsin Elections Commission<\/a> (WEC) on Sept. 8, alleging\u00a0the commission broke federal law by contracting an out-of-state vendor to maintain the state\u2019s voter rolls.<\/p>\n<p>In its complaint (<a href=\"https:\/\/thomasmoresociety.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WI-HAVA-Complaint-9-8-22.pdf\">pdf<\/a>), the Wisconsin Voter Alliance is challenging the legality of a state law which permits the elections commission to contract with third parties\u00a0to maintain the state\u2019s centralized voter roll. The complaint seeks a declaration from the WEC finding that the state statute violates the 2002 federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA).<\/p>\n<p>The complaint also asks the commission to declare that the database sharing with third parties and the parties\u2019 uses of the database are legally unauthorized under federal law.<\/p>\n<p>Such a declaration by WEC would force the end of the years-long contractual relationship between the commission and the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC).<\/p>\n<p>According to its website, ERIC is a \u201cpublic charity non-profit membership organization comprised of 33 states and the District of Columbia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The organization\u2019s mission is \u201cto assist states in improving the accuracy of America\u2019s voter rolls and increase access to voter registration for all eligible citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under the terms of their contract with ERIC, member states are required to send voter registration information to potentially eligible residents who are not registered to vote every two years.<\/p>\n<p>ERIC identifies the individuals by comparing voter data with motor vehicle licensing information, which the member states by contract must provide to it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2020\/04\/04\/wisconsin-voting-sign-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> A sign directs voters toward a polling place near the state capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, on Nov. 6, 2018. (Nick Oxford\/File Photo\/Reuters) <\/p>\n<p>The complainants argue that federal law requires that only the elections commission and its officials are authorized to maintain and implement the statewide voter registration system database.<\/p>\n<p>They claim that the Help America Vote Act requires the elections commission to maintain its database<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A citizen group filed a complaint with\u00a0the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) on Sept. 8, alleging\u00a0the commission broke federal law by contracting an out-of-state vendor to maintain the state\u2019s voter rolls. In its complaint (pdf), the Wisconsin Voter Alliance is challenging the legality of a state law which permits the elections commission to contract with third [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":369,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1646216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}