Wisconsin elections officials said they have removed more than 205,000 voters from the rolls.
QUICK FACTS:
- Local news reported Wisconsin Elections Commission officials deactivated 174,307 voter registrations “because the voters hadn’t cast a ballot in four years and didn’t respond to a mailing.”
- But the commission also deactivated 31,854 registrations of “voters who may have moved and didn’t respond to a mailing.”
- Officials say the removal is “part of routine work to keep the state’s registration lists up to date.”
- The deactivation was required under Wisconsin law.
- Trump released a statement asking, “Would this mean that we would have won Wisconsin?”
BACKGROUND:
- Purging voters from the rolls has been a point of major contention in the perennial swing state, notes The Associated Press.
- Conservatives filed a lawsuit in 2019 demanding that the Wisconsin Elections Commission remove voters from the rolls if they didn’t respond to mailings within 30 days.
- The lawsuit ultimately failed and Democrat Joe Biden went on to beat Donald Trump by about 20,000 votes.
- As of Aug. 1, 3.5 million people were registered to vote in Wisconsin. About 3.29 million voted in the 2020 presidential election, according to The Epoch Times.
TRUMP’S FULL STATEMENT:
Wisconsin has just canceled 205,000 voter registrations because they say they could not find the voters. Why did they wait until AFTER the election? Would this mean that we would have won Wisconsin? Congratulations!
