{"id":21269,"date":"2025-11-04T19:25:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=21269"},"modified":"2025-11-04T19:25:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:25:33","slug":"voter-registration-rolls-in-battleground-state-have-over-41000-discrepancies-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cndailynews.store\/?p=21269","title":{"rendered":"Voter Registration Rolls In Battleground State Have Over 41,000 Discrepancies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Election-integrity watchdogs are raising concerns and demanding answers from state officials ahead of the 2024 election due to new data revealing tens of thousands of questionable voter registrations in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n

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According to the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, more than 41,000 voter registrations don\u2019t match records in the state\u2019s driver and ID database \u2014 nearly twice as many as were flagged during the last presidential election. The group says the surge calls into question the reliability of Wisconsin\u2019s voter-verification process.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a suspicious development, it\u2019s been exposed that a whopping 41,000 Wisconsin voters\u2019 registration files do NOT match the driver and ID database\u2026 nearly DOUBLE from 2020,\u201d the organization noted in pointing out the surge in mismatches.<\/p>\n

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State records reveal 11,174 active voter registrations missing a driver\u2019s license number \u2014 nearly three times the total from 2020. Another 24,733 registrations contain name discrepancies, a sharp rise from 15,260 four years ago. Smaller categories include 680 records with mismatched names and birthdates, and 2,069 that could not be matched in the system at all, said the organization.<\/p>\n

The total amounts to about 1.1% of Wisconsin\u2019s active voter roll \u2014 a relatively small share, but in a battleground state where elections are often decided by razor-thin margins, it\u2019s enough to draw concern. Joe Biden won Wisconsin in 2020 by just over 20,000 votes.<\/p>\n

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Wisconsin was the closest state in the election by margin with President Donald Trump winning it last year by 0.9%, as well as the only state to be decided by less than a 1% margin.<\/p>\n

WILL Deputy Counsel Lucas Vebber urged caution against drawing immediate conclusions but said the discrepancies warrant serious scrutiny,\u00a0according to The Center Square<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re not in any way saying that these 40,000 votes were fraudulent votes,\u201d Vebber said. \u201cWe don\u2019t know that. We don\u2019t even know if these 40,000 names were even voters in the election. We know that they\u2019re on the voter registration list and it\u2019s certainly likely, of course, that some of them voted.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we don\u2019t know because we don\u2019t know who voted and we don\u2019t know what all the discrepancies are. It could be something innocuous, it could be something more serious. But our point in the letter is just saying this is serious enough that questions need to be answered and we need a little more transparency here from the government,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

One key concern: online voter registrations are automatically cross-checked against state ID records, while paper applications \u2014 including those submitted on Election Day \u2014 are routed through a far less transparent verification process.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you register to vote online\u2026 they will instantly check that number against the DOT database. If anything\u2019s inaccurate, they will not allow you to register to vote. If you submit a paper application\u2026 WEC won\u2019t tell us what process they used to verify the information,\u201d Vebber said.<\/p>\n

A Waukesha County judge recently ordered the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) to verify voter information against state transportation records, but that ruling is on hold pending appeal \u2014 leaving the mismatched registrations unresolved for now.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers have also demanded answers from WEC, but the agency\u2019s lack of response has only deepened skepticism in a state still scarred by contentious election battles and lingering doubts over record-high turnout.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat are they doing to ensure the integrity of our voter registration list?\u201d Vebber asked. \u201cThat\u2019s a real good question for WEC. If they have this information, then they are aware of this discrepancy. What are they doing with it? We\u2019d like to know.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Wisconsin Elections Commission says online voter registrations are automatically rejected if key information \u2014 such as a name, date of birth, license number, or residency \u2014 doesn\u2019t match state records.<\/p>\n

However, the agency offered little detail about paper applications, saying only that they go through a separate process.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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