Lawsuits seeking changes to Wisconsin voter rolls filed weeks before presidential election

Two lawsuits seeking last-minute changes to Wisconsin’s voter registration list are working their way through the courts just three weeks ahead of the presidential election. They allege voter rolls contain more than 100,000 registrations “that appear to be invalid” and election officials could switch a voter’s status through “malfeasance.”

A lawsuit filed on Sept. 30 by attorney Daniel Eastman on behalf of three Milwaukee residents claims 143,742 voters listed as active on Wisconsin’s registration list as of Aug. 19 “appear to be invalid” based on cross references with U.S. Postal Service data. The suit alleges 56,336 of those “Anomalous Registrations” are in Milwaukee.

The lawsuit is asking the court to order the Milwaukee Elections Commission to mail notices to each individual associated with an anomalous registration and remove those who do not respond within 30 days from the state’s voter registration list. It also seeks an order requiring the Wisconsin Elections Commission to instruct all of Wisconsin’s nearly 2,000 local election clerks to do the same.

Eastman was one of the lawyers involved in a 2020 lawsuit seeking to overturn former President Donald Trump’s loss to President Joe Biden. Eastman did not return a call requesting comment on the current voter registration suit.



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