Thousands of Milwaukee voters have been dropped from rolls, including some erroneously
Source: milwaukee journal
Mary Spicuzza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 12:26 p.m. CT March 21, 2018 | Updated 4:19 p.m. CT March 21, 2018
Thousands of Milwaukee voters have been dropped from voter rolls including some erroneously through the state's registration system, city officials said Wednesday.
Some 44,000 voters were removed from city rolls after the state started using a new process in the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), they said. It's unclear how many of those were dropped in error.
"This is not a problem that has been caused at the local level," Mayor Tom Barrett said at a City Hall news conference.
Barrett said problems were caused by incorrect data provided by the state Department of Motor Vehicles and the U.S. Postal Service, leading some voters who haven't actually moved or changed addresses to be erroneously dropped from the rolls.
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But Magney said, "At this point, it is too late to move everyone (who was deactivated) back onto the poll list."
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This is pure incompetence!
Link to tweet
FakeNoose
(32,595 posts)Voters are urged to visit myvote.wi.gov or call (414) 286-CITY (2489) to check registration status.
The Wisconsin Election Commissions toll-free number for non-residents is (866) 868-3947.
Check to see if you are still registered to vote. If you have recently moved or changed your name, this is especially important. If your name has been dropped you can re-register in person or on their website. Don't wait until November to do this.
dragonlady
(3,577 posts)The spring election for Supreme Court and local offices (plus a statewide referendum) is on April 3, and the fall primary is August 14. (By the way, that first phone number is the main number to Milwaukee City Hall. A direct number to the Milwaukee Election Commission is 414-286-3491.
backtoblue
(11,343 posts)What does that mean?
Our democracy is under attack by the evil, the corrupt, and the just plain idiots.
mercuryblues
(14,522 posts)should be in quotes. I do not think for 1 minute that this was a mistake. How many thousands will show up at the polls and find out they can't vote? heads should roll for this. Big time. Investigate and prosecute.
deurbano
(2,894 posts)in the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), they said. It's unclear how many of those were dropped in error."
Is this another voter suppression scheme by Walker?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,505 posts)PA refused to do Kobach's Crosscheck and is part of ERIC.
From our Gov back when Kobach was illegally seeking data -
June 30, 2017
Governor Tom Wolf sent the following letter today to Kris Kobach, the Vice Chair of the Trump Administrations Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity.
June 30, 2017
Kris W. Kobach
Vice Chair
Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Vice Chair Kobach:
We have received your request for the personal information, including partial Social Security Numbers, birth dates and driver license numbers, of every registered voter in the state. The commonwealth cannot share this information.
Your request is problematic for several reasons. First, you have suggested that you would make this information public. Wholesale public disclosure of individual voter records would be inappropriate, and it is contrary to Pennsylvania law. Second, you have given no assurances that you will handle such data securely. More broadly, your request implies that your office may undertake a systematic effort to suppress the vote in Pennsylvania.
In addition, I have serious reservations about the true intentions of this effort in light of the false statements this administration has made regarding voting integrity, the historical suppression of voting rights, and the way that such data has been used in the past.
First, during the campaign, then-candidate Trump repeatedly and falsely suggested, without evidence, that there existed wide-spread voter fraud in Pennsylvania and in particular in certain population centers in our commonwealth. These claims were untrue and unsupported by any credible evidence. Even worse, after the election, then-President-elect Trump suggested that millions of votes across the country had been cast illegally. Again, then President-Elect Trump provided no evidence in support of his claims. These attacks on our most important democratic institution the right to vote remain unproven and lack even a scintilla of support.
Second, I have grave concerns your request is a mere pretense for pursuing restrictions on the fundamental right of citizens to vote. Here in Pennsylvania, our Courts have already struck down a voter identification program, holding that such program placed unconstitutional and undue burden on this fundamental right. I have no interest in contributing to any effort to suppress the right to vote or create unnecessary or unfair burdens on voters.
Lastly, my predecessor sought to participate in your failed Inter-State Crosscheck Program, only to have local election officials explain that the program was useless, and even hurtful to improving the integrity of our election systems. The Crosscheck data was riddled with errors and inaccurate. Even so, the program discovered absolutely no double voting within the commonwealth.
Of course, integrity of the vote is of utmost importance to me and my administration. As such, my administration has partnered with the PEW Charitable Trusts and the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) to help ensure the integrity of our voter rolls. ERIC provides a more sophisticated and more reliable matching process than Interstate Crosscheck and consequently delivers a high level of confidence in the data that it provided to Pennsylvania. We are satisfied with ERIC and do not need any further assistance.
That said, like any citizen, you are welcome to purchase the publicly available voter file from the Pennsylvania Department of State. It can be purchased at pavoterservices.pa.gov for $20. Of course, in accordance with Pennsylvania law, such data may not be used for commercial or other purposes, except as required by 25 Pa.C.S. sections 1207(b) & 1404(c)(2). Further, such information may not be published on the Internet, as such publication is prohibited by 4 Pa. Code sections 183.13(g) & 183.14(k).
At the end of the day, I would be more interested in hearing from the White House how they are protecting our elections from outside, illegal and international influence, including misinformation disseminated on the Internet. Further, I would support any effort to invest more federal funding in protecting our voter systems and improving voting technology.
The right to vote is absolute and I have no confidence that you seek to bolster it. Voter suppression is undemocratic and I will not allow Pennsylvania to participate in this process to further the trend of suppression seen across the country.
Sincerely,
TOM WOLF
Governor
https://www.governor.pa.gov/governor-wolf-denies-trump-administration-request-for-voter-information/
Question is regarding what happened with WI's data - it could be "garbage in garbage out" where the WI data was purposefully or neglectfully f-ed up and thus when fed into ERIC, resulted in the drops, which is what the OP article seems to be indicating (their DMV and other sources contained crap data).
NOMOGOP
(87 posts)The problem is Scott Walker did this. This is how the '16 election was so close in Wisconsin(my home). Also, tens to hundreds of thousands were not able to vote because of the I.D. requirement. Glenn Grothmen, a Congressman in eastern part of state, openly bragged and said the voter I.D. law was to prevent some black voters from going to polls and voting Dem. Wisconsin has been turned into mini Kansas.
djacq
(1,633 posts)This smells of Scott Walker.
TwistOneUp
(1,020 posts)Were they all registered democrats?
33taw
(2,436 posts)Registration with a party is totally independent of the.state in WI. However, most of Milwaukee votes democratic.
Crash2Parties
(6,017 posts)Oh, well then. Let's just forget the whole thing happened then, right? Maybe it'll work out okay in 2020.
This is the voter fraud the Republicans warned you about.
The city is largely Dem while the suburbs are mostly Republican.
In Milwaukee county (which is mostly = the city), 66% voted for Clinton, 29% for Trump.
pnwmom
(108,958 posts)I'm sure this was deliberate.
Lakerstan
(679 posts)Maybe they are just clearing out everyone named Bogus T. Voter from 2016.
blue-wave
(4,344 posts)The republicons can't win when people vote. What's the problem??