Conservative firm sues WEC for records on same-day voter audit guidance

A conservative law firm is suing the Wisconsin Elections Commission for records tied to guidance the firm claims doesn’t state law on verifying addresses of people who register to vote on Election Day.

The Public Interest Legal Foundation is known for lawsuits aimed at purging state voter rolls. In the lawsuit, filed Thursday in Dane County Circuit Court, the organization claims the commission has withheld communications between the commission, clerks and district attorneys for more than a year.

The guidance at the heart of the lawsuit advises clerks on what to do if “Election Day Registration” or EDR postcards are returned to their offices and marked undeliverable. The postcards are used to verify the address a voter gives at the polls when registering the day of an election.

Public Interest Legal Foundation President J. Christian Adams said Wisconsin law is clear that if an EDR postcard is returned to a clerk, they’re supposed to suspend that person’s voter registration and refer them to the local district attorney for potential criminal charges. He claims the commission’s guidance “advised clerks not to follow that law.”



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