Wisconsin setting stage to remove hundreds of thousands of names from the voting rolls
Source: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
MADISON Wisconsin election officials are setting the stage to remove hundreds of thousands of people from the voting rolls because they have died, moved or not voted in the past four years.
The voters will be notified and will have a chance to keep themselves registered to vote.
Wisconsin Elections Commission approved the plan Tuesday to send postcards to up to nearly 800,000 voters by June to tell them they will be removed from the voter rolls if they don't update their information.
Also Tuesday, the commission certified to the Legislature that it has put in place a new system allowing people to use an online portal to register to vote, provided they have a valid Wisconsin driver's license or state ID card. The system is for registering only and voters still have to cast ballots at the polls, in clerks' offices or by mail.
Read more: http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2017/03/14/wisconsin-setting-stage-remove-hundreds-thousands-names-voting-rolls/99168190/
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)the goal should be to get them to vote again, not remove their capability of doing so.
cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)changes that the government is not going to spend money to get people to vote if they dont want to.
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)Removing them, however, is.
cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)and still want to vote after 4+ years of not doing so and to be honest I dont have to much of an objection to removing people from the voting registration if they have not shown any interest in voting for that many years and besides old entries like that can screw up the demographics for an area especially if a campaign is relying on the data for where to target its ads.
IronLionZion
(45,261 posts)GOP affiliated policy groups like ALEC have admitted their goal is to prevent certain types of people from voting. Types that are known to vote for Democrats for example.
cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)is it the same thing? I dont think so.
This clearing isnt what is hurting anyway its the voters not showing up and of course the absurd voter id laws which puts a hurdle in front of people especially the poor.
forthemiddle
(1,373 posts)So even if they make a mistake on removal, no one would be denied the right to vote.
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)If so, it is likely many if that were kicked off wont be able to re register.
forthemiddle
(1,373 posts)But you also need it to vote now.
So without they couldn't vote anyway.
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)Solid voter suppression plan.
forthemiddle
(1,373 posts)I only said this shouldn't deny anyone their right to vote!
Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)they need to focus on helping people overcome the voter id hurdles otherwise the Repugnants are going to keep throwing up hurdle after hurdle to stop as many people who lean to voting for Democrats as possible.
What really pisses me off though is the fact that the Courts have been largely letting them get away with these voter id laws which have nothing to truly do with voter fraud but everything to do with putting hurdles in front of voters.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"they need to focus on helping people overcome the voter id hurdles..."
I don't think the solution is to accept the problem as it stands. I'm beginning to believe you however, do.
cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)with us for awhile so we need to work around them for now.
Orrex
(63,086 posts)From his overall manner, appearance and conversation, I don't gather that he was a Trump voter.
I don't suspect that the volunteers at the polling place were up to anything fishy, but the guy insisted that he didn't know he'd been purged from the list.
JunkYardDogg
(873 posts)According to studies, maybe up to 300,000 got purged in Wisconsin by this shit
SharonAnn
(13,767 posts)For people who vote only in presidential elections, this would catch people who didn't want to vote for any of the candidates this time around. And I suspect that it could catch more nominal "D"s than "R"s. That would fit right into their voter suppression plans.
cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)has cost us alot of seats in the House.
33taw
(2,420 posts)IronLionZion
(45,261 posts)and showed up to vote in the Dem primary and it turned out I wasn't registered. Thankfully we have same day registration but a lot of folks don't check. Glitches and errors happen all the time that keep legit voters from voting.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)The DNC had better get serious about voter protection and voter enrollment in WI, pronto.
cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)Thats why I wish they would keep polls open for atleast 3 to 5 days rather than just one single day because alot of working people have trouble arranging transportation or simply getting the time to get off to go vote.
That or make it a federal mandatory holiday for everyone except people in the vital services as atleast then the large corporations like Walmart cannot rig the game by scheduling most of their workers to work that day.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)and get some progressives in to start repairing the country. So we have to do it the hard way.
halobeam
(4,873 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Orrex
(63,086 posts)And that they'll be proportionately distributed among all demographics, districts and income levels.
Of course.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)diva77
(7,606 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)If someone doesn't vote, they don't vote. They may vote in future elections. Leave them the fuck alone.
If someone moves and registers elsewhere, they'll vote there. The odds of them turning up to vote a second time in the first place are slim. N.B.: Many 45 disciples are registered to vote in multiple locations, but, presumably, only voted in one of those places.
If someone's dead, they won't vote. So what if their name's still on the rolls.
If someone's in prison, they won't vote. So what if their name's still on the rolls.
End of story. No need to purge anyone from anywhere.
SharonAnn
(13,767 posts)Igel
(35,197 posts)People move. This keeps them registered in at most one place. It's the main reason polls affect low-income folk more than others. Low income = more transient population. This is both anecdotal but also statistical.
We look at percentages of registered voters. If only 20% vote because the poll book is mostly dead or non-residents it makes that a useless number.
And it always looks bad to have 100000 registered voters in a berg with a population of 90000.
DK504
(3,847 posts)They want to start a war on voters need to shut that shit down now. This SoS wouldn't know what hit him.
murielm99
(30,657 posts)some of the grassroots organizations like Indivisible. They can mount statewide efforts to make sure everyone is registered. They can help people check and double-check their registrations.
not fooled
(5,791 posts)get out the vote efforts in many states by imposing harsh penalties for minor errors on applications. That's why the League of Women Voters stopped registering people.
Just another anti-democratic trick by the evil bastards.
coco22
(1,258 posts)JunkYardDogg
(873 posts)The Federal Court made Wisconsin institute a program for voters to obtain a State ID for Voting
Wisconsin (re.:Scott Walker) came up with an application form, available only at the State's DMV office to be filled out by the voter to be submitted to the DMV to obtain the State ID. Only problem the DMVs claimed that they had no applications & folks could not get their State Voter IDs.