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WILL Petitions for Federal Review
Wisconsin’s voter rolls could soon be under a federal microscope.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty on Tuesday asked the U.S. Department of Justice to look into thousands of registered voters who do not have a Wisconsin driver's license.
“We know that there are at least 11,000 people on the active voter registration list whose driver's license number doesn't match the DMV database,” WILL’s Lucas Vebber told News Talk 1130 WISN’s Jay Weber. “It could just be a simple mistake. They could have just written a number wrong, or perhaps as they entered it into the system, it was entered wrong. But it’s certainly worth a follow-up.”
Wisconsin voters are required to provide a driver's license number when they register online. But Vebber said Wisconsin’s system for in-person registrations is different.
“If you register to vote online, you provide your driver's license number. They will instantly check that number against the DOT database to verify all the information. So if anything's inaccurate they will not allow you to register to vote. If you go and submit a paper application to register to vote, either in-person on Election Day or before election day, WEC won't tell us what process they used to verify the information,” Vebber explained. “They just tell us it's a different process than the online process.”
Vebber said WILL’s review of Wisconsin’s voter rolls and the DOT driver's license database found:
“That should sound alarm bells, but WEC continues to ignore the issue,” Vebber added.
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