Judge orders 200,000 voters purged from rolls in Ozaukee County.

[Maraya1969]

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2019/12/13/judge-orders-wisconsin-purge-more-than-200-000-voters-list/4412776002/

Judge orders state to purge more than 200,000 Wisconsin voters from the rolls

PORT WASHINGTON - An Ozaukee County judge on Friday ordered the state to remove hundreds of thousands of people from Wisconsin's voter rolls because they may have moved.

The case is being closely watched because of the state's critical role in next year's presidential race. Circuit Judge Paul Malloy also denied the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin's petition to intervene.

Lawyers for the League and for the Wisconsin Elections Commission indicated they will appeal and asked Malloy to stay his ruling pending those appeals, but he declined.

At issue is a letter the state Elections Commission sent in October to about 234,000 voters who it believes may have moved. The letter asked the voters to update their voter registrations if they had moved or alert election officials if they were still at their same address.

The commission planned to remove the letter's recipients from the voter rolls in 2021 if it hadn't heard from them. But Malloy's decision would kick them off the rolls much sooner, and well before the 2020 presidential election.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Goddamn these fucking republicans.

This makes me so angry.

How do we stop this sort of theft?

[Jake Stern]

3. Change the law

Unfortunately the law is pretty damn clear that they MUST deactivate them within 30 days of receiving no reply and from folks I've talked to who have read the relevant statute there isn't any wiggle room.

[CanonRay]

2. The whole population of Ozaukee county is 89000

How the hell does one judge order 200000off the rolls

[Princess Turandot]

4. It's a statewide number..

The suit against the Wisconsin Elections Commission was brought in Ozaukee County by three men who, I assume, reside in that county, but it was a statewide question.

Ozaukee is heavily Republican, so I'm guessing that was why the suit was brought there. (The plaintiffs were 'assisted' by a conservative group called the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty.)

[safeinOhio]

5. No taxation, without representation.

If you have registered and can't vote, you should not have to pay any taxes until the next election. I'd bet no one would get kicked off.