Answer = Because then the Democrats won't be able to cheat.

'Wisconsin: Why Won’t This Swing State Clear 4 Million Ineligible Names
From Voter Rolls?'

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'One of the most fiercely contested battlegrounds in this fall’s
presidential race won’t remove more than 4 million ineligible names from
its voter rolls.

“Wisconsin’s population is a little less than 6 million, with 3.5
million active voters,” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told The Daily Signal
in a written statement. “So why do election officials refuse to clean up
Wisconsin’s voter rolls and [instead] allow up to 4.1 million inactive
voters to remain, with the potential for fraudulently using those
names?”

Although Johnson and some other lawmakers contend that unpruned voter
rolls create election security holes, the Wisconsin Elections Commission
contends that it ensures proper recordkeeping and prevents fraud.

A website of the Wisconsin Elections Commission called Badger Voters
numbers “all voters” in the state at 7.7 million. That’s a total of 3.5
million active voters and 4.19 million inactive voters.

Voters listed as “inactive” aren’t eligible to vote in Wisconsin.
Residents who haven’t voted for four years and failed to respond to
repeated notices from election officials are moved to the inactive list.
But Wisconsin keeps the names on the voter rolls, in contrast to many
other states that delete ineligible names. If ineligible names were just
deleted, the Wisconsin Elections Commission contends, “There would be no
registration history, no participation history, and most importantly, no
history of why a record became ineligible.”

But lawmakers contend that keeping the ineligible names on the rolls
creates vulnerabilities.

Earlier this year, the former deputy director of the Milwaukee County
Election Commission was sentenced to one year of probation and a $3,000
fine after she was convicted of charges in October 2022 that she
obtained three absentee ballots and used fake names and Social Security
numbers, The Associated Press reported.

The criminal complaint said she used her work-issued computer to obtain
three military absentee ballots using fake names and Social Security
numbers. Claiming she was trying to make a point, she sent the phony
ballots to a Republican state representative.

“In Milwaukee County, an election official created voters but the
Wisconsin Elections Commission says they have to keep those names on
their list as inactive for metadata with an explanation of why they are
inactive,” state Rep. Scott Krug, chairman of the House Campaign and
Elections Committee, told The Daily Signal. “They aren’t even real
people, but the WEC won’t take anyone off the voter rolls.”

Krug said state courts have sided with the election commission in the
past.

“There has been a conflict over this for a few years about whether we as
legislators can order the ineligible names to be removed,” Krug said.
“Courts have said we cannot force the removal and it is at the
discretion of the WEC.”

The Wisconsin Elections Commission referred The Daily Signal to its
previous statements on the matter.

“There are two big reasons to retain the records of inactive, or
ineligible, voters. First and foremost is that the law requires it. The
retention of public records is essential to the maintenance of an open
and transparent government,” the commission’s website says.

The commission says the second reason is that “to retain ineligible
voter records is to safeguard against fraud.”

“The retention of voter history does not make it any easier to commit
election fraud. It is no more difficult or easy to change a voter record
than it is to create one from scratch. Instead, the retention of
historical data helps to safeguard against abuse of the system,” the
Wisconsin Elections Commission contends. “If ineligible records were
destroyed, the state of Wisconsin would have no voting history. There
would be no registration history, no participation history, and most
importantly, no history of why a record became ineligible.”

The Associated Press has noted that if a voter’s address has changed,
“Wisconsin voters can register online, by mail, in person at their local
clerk’s office, or at the polls on the day of an election.”

The state has strong voter ID laws, which could counter these electron
threats, noted Annette Olson, CEO of MacIver Institute, a Wisconsin
think tank.

“The Wisconsin Elections Commission will not remove any of those names,”
Olson told The Daily Signal. “There are people who are made up that are
still on the voter rolls. They are not real. … As long as the [election]
clerks enforce the voter ID laws, we should be in good hands.”

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