Weeks before election, lawsuit seeks to change Wisconsin's citizenship screening process for voting

Two lawyers involved in efforts to reverse President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in Wisconsin are asking a judge to create a new system for checking people’s citizenship for voting.

The lawsuit, which comes just weeks before Election Day, asks Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Michael Maxwell to order the Wisconsin Department of Transportation and the Wisconsin Elections Commission to cross-reference data for millions of residents on Wisconsin’s voter registration list before the Nov. 5 election. If any noncitizens are found on the voter rolls, the suit wants them removed.

Wisconsin attorneys Michael Dean and Kevin Scott brought the lawsuit on behalf of Ardis Cerny of Pewaukee, who was part of a group of observers overseeing former President Donald Trump’s recount following his 2020 loss to President Joe Biden. That year, Dean was involved in a lawsuit seeking to overturn the election results. Both he and Scott also worked for former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, who headed an investigation into the 2020 results and suggested the Wisconsin Legislature could decertify Biden’s win.

The lawsuit claims around one-half of 1 percent of people who applied for voter ID cards over the last decade were denied because of fraud or ineligibility. Dean and Scott contend that given that rejection rate, there could be around 10,000 illegally registered active voters statewide, and Dean suggested during a lengthy court hearing Thursday that the number could be higher.


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