Voter purge case going before Wisconsin Supreme Court

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

SCOTT BAUER
, Associated Press
Sep. 29, 2020
Updated: Sep. 29, 2020 10:10 a.m.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday in a case that could result in the purging of about 130,000 people from voter rolls in the hotly contested battleground state.

However, it wasn't clear if the court would rule in time to affect the Nov. 3 election that was just five weeks away. Attorneys for both sides didn't expect a decision until after the election.

The arguments come in one of several closely watched lawsuits in Wisconsin. On Sunday, a federal appeals court temporarily put on hold a ruling that would expand the time that absentee ballots can be counted.

President Donald Trump won Wisconsin by fewer than 23,000 votes in 2016, making the fight over any change to the process of voting and who is able to vote all the more significant.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/Voter-purge-case-before-Wisconsin-Supreme-Court-15604750.php

[beachbumbob]

1. In 2016, didn't 500,000 Wisconsin voters purged immediately before

the election, many were black voters in black precincts

[Indyfan53]

2. Check and Update your registration!

Make sure you are not purged!

[Qutzupalotl]

3. Resources to check your voter registration:

There are several I’m forgetting, but these are off the top of my head:
https://www.vote.org
https://www.canivote.org
Pod Save America has another site, but I forget the address.

Also try googling your state’s Secretary of State (or appropriate elections official) website, and log in there. It is my understanding that they all access the same database for each particular state.

Please do so regularly, up to election day — you never know when a purge might occur.

[Griefbird]

4. Most of these voters are eligible to vote

I heard on Thom Hartmann this morning that an independent group has made contact with about 60% of these voters and determined that their registrations were removed in error. Believe it or not, they were nearly all either Black voters or students.

[geretogo]

5. The Banana Republics of South America have finally come to America .

[Judi Lynn]

6. EXCLUSIVE: Republican groups are trying to purge Black voters in a key swing state

The Wisconsin Supreme Court is poised to hear a lawsuit that would remove hundreds of thousands of Black and low-income voters from the electoral register, a move which could swing the election to Donald Trump.

Henry Goodwin by Henry Goodwin September 29, 2020

Nearly 130,000 voters – many of them Black – could be unfairly prevented from voting in the key swing state of Wisconsin by a controversial court ruling, just 35 days before the US election.

Justices in the Wisconsin Supreme Court are poised to hear arguments in a lawsuit that would force the state to remove hundreds of thousands from the electoral register, on the grounds that they have moved addresses.

But a report by investigative group the Palast Fund and experts in address verification – including the official licensee of the US Postal Service – found that at least 39,722 of the so-called “movers” did not change address at all.

A further 58,404 on the list had moved – but only within their county. Wisconsin law and the National Voter Registration Act prevent cancelling the registration of those who move within their town or city.

More:
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/world-news/exclusive-republican-groups-are-trying-to-purge-black-voters-in-a-key-swing-state/29/09/