Voters dismayed to find they've been kicked off the voter rolls
For Jenni Gile, going to her eastside Madison polling place on Tuesday was a disappointment. Even though she voted at the same polling place for at least four years, she was informed she was removed from the voter list.
“If I had moved, I get it,” she said in an email to the Cap Times. “But that’s not the case.”
She's not alone. Across Wisconsin, voters have been complaining that they either couldn't vote, or had to retrieve records to prove their residency and reregister.
In Gile's case, she said she didn't register because an unhelpful poll worker didn't tell her how to go about it.
According to the state Elections Commission, part of the problem stems from an effort to update voter status through the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), which pools the efforts of several states to identify voters who may have changed their address, moved out of state or died. To identify people whose voting status needs to be verified, the group draws data from Social Security, state departments of motor vehicles and the Postal Service.
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