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6. The appeals court also vacated an order from that same judge that found the state Elections Commissi
Fri Feb 28, 2020, 05:39 PM
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The appeals court also vacated an order from that same judge that found the state Elections Commission in contempt for not moving forward with the purge.


The appeals court sent the case back to the lower court and ordered that it be dismissed.


The case has received a lot of attention because Wisconsin is among a group of swing states being targeted by Democrats and President Donald Trump this year. Trump won Wisconsin in 2016 by fewer than 23,000 votes, putting even more of a focus on every voter in the state.

The voter purge lawsuit argued that the state elections commission broke the law when it did not remove voters from the rolls who did not respond within 30 days to a mailing in October indicating they may have moved. The commission wanted to wait until after the November 2020 presidential election before removing anyone because of inaccuracies found while previously attempting to identify voters who may have moved...............................
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