WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) – The Wisconsin Elections Commission announced on Friday the deactivation of 108,378 voter records as part of the mandatory Four-Year Maintenance process.
Meagan Wolfe, the administrator of the WEC, claimed that those who were deactivated by the organization had not cast a ballot in the previous four years and had not responded to requests from the organization asking about the status of their registration.
“The Four-Year Maintenance process helps keep our voter registration database as clean and updated as possible,” Wolfe said. “The deactivations are a combination of voters who have moved to a new address without re-registering, voters who have died, others who have asked to have their registrations deactivated, and those who simply have not voted.”
The Commission discovered 116,051 registered voters in June who had not cast a ballot since the general election in November 2018. These voters received “Notice of Suspension” postcards from the Commission, which asked them if they wanted to continue to be registered voters on the state’s voter list. Voters had 30 days to submit a postcard to their municipal clerk to maintain their registration.
Only 235 duplicate voter records were found, and 387 voter registrations were found to be from deceased people, according to their statistics.
