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</font></div><div><div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style=""><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4" color="#330000"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b style="">Wisconsin Elections Commission</b> is a bipartisan <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_agency" title="Regulatory agency" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">regulatory agency</a> of the State of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin" title="Wisconsin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Wisconsin</a> established to administer and enforce <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_law" title="Election law" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">election laws</a> in the state. The Wisconsin Elections Commission was established by a 2015 act of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Legislature" title="Wisconsin Legislature" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Wisconsin Legislature</a> which also established the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Ethics_Commission" title="Wisconsin Ethics Commission" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Wisconsin Ethics Commission</a> to administer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance" title="Campaign finance" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">campaign finance</a>, ethics, and lobbying laws. The two commissions began operation on June 30, 2016, replacing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Government_Accountability_Board" title="Wisconsin Government Accountability Board" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Wisconsin Government Accountability Board</a> (GAB), which was abolished</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-gab_2-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_note-gab-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#330000">The Government Accountability Board had been established in 2008 to replace the Wisconsin Elections Board and Wisconsin Ethics Board.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 7px; display: table;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="margin: 0px; position: absolute; opacity: 0; z-index: -1; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center; direction: ltr;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">
</font></div><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#Membership" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Membership</span></font></a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#Current_Commissioners" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Current Commissioners</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#History" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">History</span></font></a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#Establishment(2015)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Establishment (2015)</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#Presidential_election_recount(2016)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Presidential election recount (2016)</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#Attempted_voter_purge(2019%E2%80%932020)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Attempted voter purge (2019–2020)</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000"><span class="mw-headline" id="Membership">Membership</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" color="#330000">The Commission is made up of six members, two of which are appointed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Wisconsin" title="Governor of Wisconsin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Governor</a>, and one each by the President of the Senate, the Senate Minority Leader, the Speaker of the Assembly, and the Assembly Minority Leader.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[4]</a></sup> As of 2020, Republicans and Democrats have three members each.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#330000">The staff of the Commission are non-partisan, and are led by an administrator appointed by the commission and confirmed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Senate" title="Wisconsin Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wisconsin Senate</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-elections_5-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_note-elections-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup> <b>Meagan Wolfe</b> was appointed interim administrator March 2, 2018, and was unanimously confirmed by the Wisconsin State Senate on May 15, 2019 for a term ending June 30, 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000"><span class="mw-headline" id="Current_Commissioners">Current Commissioners</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3><table class="wikitable sortable jquery-tablesorter" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); margin: 1em 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); border-collapse: collapse;"><thead><tr><th rowspan="2" class="headerSort" tabindex="0" role="columnheader button" title="Sort ascending" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 21px 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center; background-image: url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" jquery.tablesorter.styles="jquery.tablesorter.styles" images="images" sort_both.svg="sort_both.svg" e440="e440" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-position="background-position" right="right" center="center"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Position</font></th><th rowspan="2" class="headerSort" tabindex="0" role="columnheader button" title="Sort ascending" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 21px 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center; background-image: url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" jquery.tablesorter.styles="jquery.tablesorter.styles" images="images" sort_both.svg="sort_both.svg" e440="e440" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-position="background-position" right="right" center="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#330000">Name<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup></font></th><th rowspan="2" class="headerSort" tabindex="0" role="columnheader button" title="Sort ascending" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 21px 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center; 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unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[a]</a></sup></font></th><th rowspan="2" class="headerSort" tabindex="0" role="columnheader button" title="Sort ascending" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 21px 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center; background-image: url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" jquery.tablesorter.styles="jquery.tablesorter.styles" images="images" sort_both.svg="sort_both.svg" e440="e440" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-position="background-position" right="right" center="center"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Party</font></th><th colspan="2" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Appointer</font></th></tr><tr><th class="headerSort" tabindex="0" role="columnheader button" title="Sort ascending" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 21px 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center; background-image: url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" jquery.tablesorter.styles="jquery.tablesorter.styles" images="images" sort_both.svg="sort_both.svg" e440="e440" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-position="background-position" right="right" center="center"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Position</font></th><th class="headerSort" tabindex="0" role="columnheader button" title="Sort ascending" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 21px 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center; background-image: url(" w="w" resources="resources" src="src" jquery.tablesorter.styles="jquery.tablesorter.styles" images="images" sort_both.svg="sort_both.svg" e440="e440" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-position="background-position" right="right" center="center"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Name</font></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Chair</font></th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span data-sort-value="Millis, Don M."><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Don M. Millis</font></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Prairie,Wisconsin" title="Sun Prairie, Wisconsin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Sun Prairie</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">2024</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(255, 182, 182);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Rep.</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_of_the_Wisconsin_State_Assembly" title="Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Assembly Speaker</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Vos" title="Robin Vos" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Robin Vos</font></a></td></tr><tr><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Vice Chair</font></th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span data-sort-value="Spindell Jr., Robert F." style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Robert F. Spindell Jr.</font></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee" title="Milwaukee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Milwaukee</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">2026</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(255, 182, 182);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Rep.</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_State_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Wisconsin State Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Senate Majority Leader</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devin_LeMahieu" title="Devin LeMahieu" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Devin LeMahieu</font></a></td></tr><tr><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Commissioner</font></th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span data-sort-value="Bostelmann, Marge"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Marge Bostelmann</font></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Lake,Wisconsin" title="Green Lake, Wisconsin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Green Lake</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">2024</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(255, 182, 182);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Rep.</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Wisconsin" title="Governor of Wisconsin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Governor</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Walker(politician)" title="Scott Walker (politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Scott Walker</font></a></td></tr><tr><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Commissioner</font></th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span data-sort-value="Glancey, Julie M."><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Julie M. Glancey</font></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheboygan_Falls,Wisconsin" title="Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Sheboygan Falls</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">2021</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(176, 206, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Dem.</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Wisconsin" title="Governor of Wisconsin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Governor</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Walker(politician)" title="Scott Walker (politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Scott Walker</font></a></td></tr><tr><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Commissioner</font></th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span data-sort-value="Jacobs, Ann S."><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Ann S. Jacobs</font></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee" title="Milwaukee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Milwaukee</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">2026</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(176, 206, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Dem.</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_State_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Wisconsin State Senate" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Senate Minority Leader</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Bewley(Wisconsin_politician)" title="Janet Bewley (Wisconsin politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Janet Bewley</font></a></td></tr><tr><th style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(234, 236, 240); text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Commissioner</font></th><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><span data-sort-value="Thomsen, Mark L."><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Mark L. Thomsen</font></span></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee" title="Milwaukee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Milwaukee</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">2024</font></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em; background-color: rgb(176, 206, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Dem.</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_State_Assembly" title="Wisconsin State Assembly" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Assembly Minority Leader</font></a></td><td style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 0.2em 0.4em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Hintz" title="Gordon Hintz" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">Gordon Hintz</font></a></td></tr></tbody><tfoot /></table><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: lower-alpha;"><div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-parent 0 list-item 0; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_ref-8" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text">Terms end on May 1.</span></font></li></ol></div></div><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000"><span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000"><span id="Establishment.282015.29"><span class="mw-headline" id="Establishment(2015)">Establishment (2015)</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" color="#330000">The law to create the Wisconsin Elections Commission and the Wisconsin Ethics Commission, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2015/related/acts/118" style="background-image: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" background-position="background-position" right="right" center="center" background-size="background-size" initial="initial" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" background-attachment="background-attachment" background-origin="background-origin" background-clip="background-clip" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">2015 Wisconsin Act 118</a>, was signed into law on December 16, 2015, b<b>y Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Walker(politician)" title="Scott Walker (politician)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Scott Walker</a>.</b> The two commissions formally came into existence on June 30, 2016.</font></p><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000"><span id="Presidential_election_recount.282016.29"><span class="mw-headline" id="Presidential_election_recount(2016)">Presidential election recount (2016)</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4" color="#330000"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On November 25, 2016, the Commission received a petition from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Party_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Green Party of the United States" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Green Party</a> presidential nominee <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Stein" title="Jill Stein" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Jill Stein</a> for a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election_recount_and_audit" class="mw-redirect" title="2016 United States presidential election recount and audit" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">hand recount of the votes in the state from the 2016 presidential election</a>. On November 28, the Commission rejected Stein's request for a hand recount.</span><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_note-9" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_note-9" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">8]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000"><span id="Attempted_voter_purge.282019.E2.80.932020.29"><span class="mw-headline" id="Attempted_voter_purge(2019–2020)">Attempted voter purge (2019–2020)</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4" color="#330000"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">In 2019, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Institute_for_Law_and_Liberty" title="Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty</a> (WILL) petitioned <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_V.Malloy" title="Paul V. Malloy" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Paul V. Malloy</a>, the presiding <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_circuit_courts" title="Wisconsin circuit courts" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">circuit court</a> judge in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozaukee_County,Wisconsin" title="Ozaukee County, Wisconsin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Ozaukee County, Wisconsin</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[10]</a></sup> to remove 234,000 voters from the statewide rolls.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> WILL's lawsuit demanded that the Commission respond to a "Movers Report," which was produced via computer analysis of voter data compiled by the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Registration_Information_Center" title="Electronic Registration Information Center" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Electronic Registration Information Center</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (ERIC). Funded in 2012 by the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pew_Charitable_Trusts" class="mw-redirect" title="Pew Charitable Trusts" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Pew Charitable Trusts</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, ERIC is a non-partisan national non-profit organization that shares voter registration information aimed at improving the accuracy and reliability of voter rolls and increasing voter participation.</span><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4" color="#330000"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Malloy ruled that Wisconsin law compelled him to order an urgent purging of those possibly invalid registrants from the voter rolls,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[13]</a></sup> and refused to grant standing to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Women_Voters" title="League of Women Voters" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">League of Women Voters</a> (LWV) and the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign (WDC) to intervene in the case</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Rothschild_15-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_note-Rothschild-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The WDC filed suit in federal court to halt the contested purging.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Rothschild_15-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_note-Rothschild-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Acting on behalf of the Commission, which was split 3-3 on the matter </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Kaul" title="Josh Kaul" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Josh Kaul</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Wisconsin's </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General_of_Wisconsin" title="Attorney General of Wisconsin" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Attorney General</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, joined the appeal to stay Malloy's removals.</span><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#330000">The ERIC report had tagged 234,039 registrations, around 7% of all registrants in Wisconsin, after its analysis concluded they might have moved to an address which had not yet been updated on their voter registration records, or were otherwise suspected to be invalid.<sup id="cite_ref-Tomahawk_17-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_note-Tomahawk-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup> Notifications were sent to all those voters that their registration might need to be brought up to date. Some sixty thousand of those notices were found to be undeliverable. Approximately 2,300 voters confirmed that their registrations were correct. An additional 16,500 had reregistered at more recent addresses. The registrations of those determined to be deceased would be removed. </font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#330000">The Commission estimated that the voter verification process would take one to two years to complete prior to initiating any action to remove those former voters, the accuracy of whose registrations still remained unresolved.<sup id="cite_ref-Tomahawk_17-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_note-Tomahawk-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup> Despite insufficient evidence for removal of that extraordinary number of qualified voters, the state could be forced to comply with Malloy's order.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup> On January 2, 2020, WILL said it asked the circuit court to hold the Elections Commission in contempt, fining it up to $12,000 daily, until it advanced Malloy's December 17, 2019 order to remove from the rolls registrations of hundreds of thousands of voters who might have moved to a different address. The case was being heard in a state appeals court, but it was presumed that the conservative-dominated Wisconsin Supreme Court could be expected to support Malloy's ruling.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup> </font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4" color="#330000"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The purge was construed to be targeting voters living in the cities of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison,Wisconsin" title="Madison, Wisconsin" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Madison</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee" title="Milwaukee" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Milwaukee</a>, as well as college towns, which all tended to favor Democrats.<sup id="cite_ref-Rothschild_15-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_note-Rothschild-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[14]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-purge_20-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_note-purge-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[19]</a></sup> Reporter and author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Palast" title="Greg Palast" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Greg Palast</a> associated the Wisconsin effort at voter purging as conforming to a national Republican party strategy which had attracted international attention</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> On January 12, 2020, Malloy found the three Democrats on the stalemated six-member Elections Commission to be in contempt of court, ordering them each to pay a fine of $250 daily until they complied with his order. Malloy demanded urgent implementation of his order, saying, "We're deadlocked, time is running and time is clearly of the essence."</span><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> T</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">he Milwaukee <i style=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_Journal_Sentinel" title="Milwaukee Journal Sentinel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Journal Sentinel</a></i> examined the list of voters subject to being purged because they were presumed to have moved, and found that about 55 percent of those registrants had been domiciled in municipalities that had been won by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Hillary Clinton</a> in the 2016 general election</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><div class="reflist" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: decimal;"><div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns" style="column-width: 30em; margin-top: 0.3em;"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-parent 0 list-item 0; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-bb2019-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#330000"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;">^ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_ref-bb2019_1-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_ref-bb2019_1-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFWisconsin_Legislative_Reference_Bureau2019" class="citation report cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau (2019). 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">August 24,</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Pew+Charitable+Trust&rft.atitle=Archived+Project%3A+Electronic+Registration+Information+Center&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pewtrusts.org%2Fen%2Fprojects%2Farchived-projects%2Felection-initiatives%2Fabout%2Fupgrading-voter-registration%2Feric&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWisconsin+Elections+Commission" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_ref-13" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFLohr2018" class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Lohr, Steve (November 5, 2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/05/technology/unregistered-voter-rolls.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Another Use for A.I.: Finding Millions of Unregistered Voters"</a>. <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The New York Times</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">August 24,</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Another+Use+for+A.I.%3A+Finding+Millions+of+Unregistered+Voters&rft.date=2018-11-05&rft.aulast=Lohr&rft.aufirst=Steve&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2018%2F11%2F05%2Ftechnology%2Funregistered-voter-rolls.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWisconsin+Elections+Commission" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_ref-14" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFDupont2019" class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Dupont, Amy (December 13, 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://fox6now.com/2019/12/13/judge-orders-234000-voter-registrations-to-be-tossed/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Wisconsin judge orders removal of 234,000 voters from state registry"</a>. <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WITI(TV)" title="WITI (TV)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">FOX6Now</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">August 24,</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=FOX6Now&rft.atitle=Wisconsin+judge+orders+removal+of+234%2C000+voters+from+state+registry&rft.date=2019-12-13&rft.aulast=Dupont&rft.aufirst=Amy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ffox6now.com%2F2019%2F12%2F13%2Fjudge-orders-234000-voter-registrations-to-be-tossed%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWisconsin+Elections+Commission" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Rothschild-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#330000"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;">^ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_ref-Rothschild_15-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_ref-Rothschild_15-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_ref-Rothschild_15-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFRothschild2019" class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Rothschild, Matthew (December 19, 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://madison.com/ct/opinion/column/matthew-rothschild-elections-commission-is-right-to-hold-off-on/article_6c74c336-9fe3-59a4-9edb-a78580b5f5a1.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Matthew Rothschild: Elections Commission is right to hold off on voter purge"</a>. <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Capital_Times" title="The Capital Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Capital Times</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">August 24,</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Capital+Times&rft.atitle=Matthew+Rothschild%3A+Elections+Commission+is+right+to+hold+off+on+voter+purge&rft.date=2019-12-19&rft.aulast=Rothschild&rft.aufirst=Matthew&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fmadison.com%2Fct%2Fopinion%2Fcolumn%2Fmatthew-rothschild-elections-commission-is-right-to-hold-off-on%2Farticle_6c74c336-9fe3-59a4-9edb-a78580b5f5a1.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWisconsin+Elections+Commission" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_ref-16" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFVielmettiBeck2019" class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Vielmetti, Bruce; Beck, Molly (December 17, 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2019/12/17/wisconsin-voter-purge-elections-commission-appeals-judges-order-remove-from-rolls-league-of-women/2677466001/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Effort to stop removal of 234K voter registrations heads to federal court, while attorney general tries to stall purge in state court"</a>. <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_Journal_Sentinel" title="Milwaukee Journal Sentinel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">August 24,</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Milwaukee+Journal+Sentinel&rft.atitle=Effort+to+stop+removal+of+234K+voter+registrations+heads+to+federal+court%2C+while+attorney+general+tries+to+stall+purge+in+state+court&rft.date=2019-12-17&rft.aulast=Vielmetti&rft.aufirst=Bruce&rft.au=Beck%2C+Molly&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jsonline.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2F2019%2F12%2F17%2Fwisconsin-voter-purge-elections-commission-appeals-judges-order-remove-from-rolls-league-of-women%2F2677466001%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWisconsin+Elections+Commission" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-Tomahawk-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#330000"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;">^ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_ref-Tomahawk_17-0" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_ref-Tomahawk_17-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><sup style="line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFMaki2019" class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Maki, Jalen (December 27, 2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.tomahawkleader.com/2019/12/27/purge-of-234000-wisconsin-voter-registrations-challenged-in-federal-state-court/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Purge of 234,000 Wisconsin voter registrations challenged in federal, state court"</a>. <i>Tomahawk Leader</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">August 24,</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Tomahawk+Leader&rft.atitle=Purge+of+234%2C000+Wisconsin+voter+registrations+challenged+in+federal%2C+state+court&rft.date=2019-12-27&rft.aulast=Maki&rft.aufirst=Jalen&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tomahawkleader.com%2F2019%2F12%2F27%2Fpurge-of-234000-wisconsin-voter-registrations-challenged-in-federal-state-court%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWisconsin+Elections+Commission" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_ref-18" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/12/wisconsin-voter-purge-judge-order.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">How a Conservative Group Persuaded a Judge to Purge Wisconsin’s Voter Rolls</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slate_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Slate Magazine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Slate Magazine</a></i>, Mark Joseph Stern, December 16, 2019. Retrieved August 24, 2020.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Elections_Commission#cite_ref-19" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><cite id="CITEREFVetterkind2020" class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Vetterkind, Riley (January 2, 2020). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/conservative-legal-group-alleges-elections-commission-in-contempt-of-court/article_343fcbe4-050e-5679-8f30-3e2641a75567.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" w="w" skins="skins" vector="Vector" resources="resources" common="common" images="images" external-link-ltr-icon.svg="external-link-ltr-icon.svg" e54="e54" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px">"Conservative legal group alleges Elections Commission in contempt of court"</a>. <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_State_Journal" title="Wisconsin State Journal" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wisconsin State Journal</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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</font></div><div><div><div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#330000" /><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#330000"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><b>Paul V. Malloy</b> is the presiding circuit court judge for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozaukee_County,Wisconsin" title="Ozaukee County, Wisconsin" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Ozaukee County, Wisconsin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_V.Malloy#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></p><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Education_and_career">Education and career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">Malloy graduated with a bachelor's degree in business administration from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Wisconsin-Milwaukee" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee</a> in 1981 and received a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">J.D.</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_V.Malloy#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> (law) degree from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Marshall_Law_School(Chicago)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Marshall Law School (Chicago)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Marshall Law School (Chicago)</a> in 1985. He was appointed to the bench in 2002 then elected to a full six-year term in 2003. He was re-elected in 2009 and 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_V.Malloy#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup> His current term expires in 2021.</p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">Malloy was involved in a number of disputes with fellow Ozaukee County Judge Joseph Voiland.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_V.Malloy#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">In 2019, Malloy ordered that 234,000 voters who were flagged as having potentially moved and who did not respond to a mailing should be removed from the state's voter rolls.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_V.Malloy#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup> Wisconsin's Attorney General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Kaul" title="Josh Kaul" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Josh Kaul</a> filed a notice of appeal to halt the purging, acting on behalf of the state's Elections Commission which was split 3-3, and requested a stay of Malloy's order.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_V.Malloy#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup> The issue was brought before the court by the conservative nonprofit law firm the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Institute_for_Law_and_Liberty" title="Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty</a> (WILL). The lawsuit demanded that the Wisconsin Election Commission respond to a "Movers Report," generated from voter data analysis produced by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Registration_Information_Center" title="Electronic Registration Information Center" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Electronic Registration Information Center</a> (ERIC), a national, non-partisan partnership funded in 2012 by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pew_Charitable_Trusts" class="mw-redirect" title="Pew Charitable Trusts" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Pew Charitable Trusts</a>. ERIC shares voter registration information to improve the accuracy of voter rolls.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_V.Malloy#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_V.Malloy#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">The ERIC report tagged 234,039 voters, roughly 7% of all registrants in the state, who it believed may have moved to an address that had not yet been updated on their voter registration forms.<sup id="cite_ref-Tomahawk_9-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_V.Malloy#cite_note-Tomahawk-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup> Notifications were sent to all those voters that their registration needed to be updated. Sixty thousand of those letters were found to be undeliverable. Twenty three hundred voters confirmed that their registrations were correct and 16,500 had registered at their current addresses. Registrations of those found to be deceased would be removed. The Commission estimated that the verification process would take 12–24 months to complete before action was taken to remove those former voters whose registrations remained unresolved.<sup id="cite_ref-Tomahawk_9-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_V.Malloy#cite_note-Tomahawk-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup> On January 2, 2020, WILL said it asked the circuit court to hold the Elections Commission in contempt, fining it up to $12,000 daily, until it advanced Malloy's December 17, 2019, order to purge from the voting rolls hundreds of thousands of registered voters who possibly have moved to a different address.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_V.Malloy#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">The Democratic Party argued that the purge targeted voters living in areas favoring Democrats. On January 12, 2020, Malloy held the three Democrats on the stalemated six-member Elections Commission in contempt of court and ordered them to pay a fine of $250 a day until they complied with his order. Malloy urged speedy implementation of his order, saying, "We're deadlocked, time is running and time is clearly of the essence."<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_V.Malloy#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup> The <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_Journal_Sentinel" title="Milwaukee Journal Sentinel" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</a></i> assessed the list of voters subject to being purged because they were presumed to have moved, finding that about 55 percent of those registrants had been living in municipalities which <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton" title="Hillary Clinton" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hillary Clinton</a> had won in the 2016 election. These were predominantly from college towns and Wisconsin's largest cities, Milwaukee and Madison.<sup id="cite_ref-purge_12-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_V.Malloy#cite_note-purge-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup> In 2016, Trump had carried the state by less than 23,000 votes. After the contempt order was issued, a stay issued later that day by the state Supreme Court upheld Malloy's purge.<sup id="cite_ref-purge_12-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_V.Malloy#cite_note-purge-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup> That was subsequently reversed by an appeals court, whose decision was appealed to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Supreme_Court" title="Wisconsin Supreme Court" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wisconsin Supreme Court</a> by WILL.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_V.Malloy#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><b>On April 7, 2020, effective on August 1, 2020, voters ousted <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kelly(Wisconsin_judge)" title="Daniel Kelly (Wisconsin judge)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Daniel Kelly</a>, a conservative Supreme Court justice, an appointee of Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Walker(politician)" title="Scott Walker (politician)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Scott Walker</a>, by a margin of 120,000 votes. Kelly had been expected to be a swing vote in deciding the case</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_V.Malloy#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup> The Wisconsin Supreme Court heard the case about purging of the voter rolls on October 4, 2020, but was not expected to make a decision before the November election.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_V.Malloy#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup> In April 2021, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled in a 5-2 ruling that the Wisconsin Election Commission should not remove from its rolls voters flagged as possibly having moved, as local municipal elections officials rather than the state election commission should be tasked with removing voter registrations. Of the 69,000 people flagged by the elections commission as being "likely movers", none voted in the 2020 presidential election. No voters were removed from the voter rolls while the legal fight was pending.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_V.Malloy#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman"></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2020/12/08/spindell-conspiracies-political-violence/">https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2020/12/08/spindell-conspiracies-political-violence/</a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">no lnx many pix</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Elections official stands by at rally as speakers spread conspiracies, promote political violence</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">BY: HENRY REDMAN -</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> DECEMBER 8, 2020 </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">     </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Wisconsin</b> Trump election rally</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Wisconsin Elections Commissioner Robert Spindell is seen speaking between two people draped in the flags of right wing movements, the Tea Party and Trumpism. (Henry Redman | Wisconsin Examiner)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">One of the six officials charged with administering and protecting Wisconsin’s elections system stood on the steps of the State Capitol Monday afternoon as a group of President Donald Trump’s supporters chanted “stop the steal.” </span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Robert Spindell, one of three Republicans on the Wisconsin Elections Commission </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">stood by as speakers spread conspiracy theories about election fraud and COVID-19, compared the 2020 presidential election to Pearl Harbor and</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> advocated for the violent overthrow of the government. </span></b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Spindell, in his short speech to the flag-waving and MAGA hat wearing crowd of Trump voters, said he was attending the rally as a private citizen, not in his capacity as a government official. He said the election fraud committed in the 1950s and 60s by former Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley shows election fraud could have been committed this year.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wisconsin Trump election rally</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Wisconsin Elections Commissioner Robert Spindell speaks at the rally. (Henry Redman | Wisconsin Examiner)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>While he did not give any specific examples of voter fraud in Wisconsin, Spindell implied, falsely, that it had happened.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“There’s no evidence vote fraud did not occur,” Spindell said, calling for election officials to prove a negative. </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Spindell also went through a laundry list of grievances about elections this year. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He complained about pre-election lawsuits filed by the Democratic Party of Wisconsin and Democratic National Committee that attempted to change some election rules to make voting easier during a pandemic. Ultimately these changes were struck down by a federal appellate court and the U.S. Supreme Court.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He complained that the Democrats on the elections commission and the body’s non-partisan staff refused to remove from the voter rolls hundreds of thousands of people who may have moved or died  — a decision that was made to avoid mistakenly disenfranchising people. T<b>he status of Wisconsin’s so-called voter purge is still pending an order from the Wisconsin Supreme Court but there’s no evidence dead people voted and people who have moved can update their registration at the polls on Election Day. </b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wisconsin Trump election rally]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Evidence of Wisconsin’s year of political protest with pro-Trump protesters stand near anti-police graffiti from Black Lives Matter protests. (Henry Redman | Wisconsin Examiner)]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Spindell complained that municipal clerks filled in missing addresses on absentee ballots, a practice allowed under guidance provided by the Wisconsin Elections Commission and which has been in place for previous elections. </b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Finally, he complained that candidates from the Green Party and Kanye West were not allowed on the presidential ballot because of issues with their paperwork.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> </span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Emails showed Spindell attempted to assist the Green Party in its efforts to get on the ballot despite failing to properly file nomination papers. Spindell has repeatedly complained that not allowing West on the ballot, even though his campaign missed the deadline to file, was disenfranchisement of Black voters. </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wisconsin Trump election rally</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> A QAnon flag flies in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol at the Dec. 7 pro-Trump election rally. (Henry Redman | Wisconsin Examiner)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>“How about Kenyon (sic.) West?” Spindell said. </b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">At the start of the rally, the largely un-masked crowd gathered closely together to sing “God Bless America,” “The Star Spangled Banner” and “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” The group was outside; still, singing is considered by the CDC to be an especially effective vector of COVID-19 spread. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Near the singers, a group of 15 people carrying Trump flags did laps of the Capitol while praying the rosary. </b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Appearing alongside Spindell was the rally’s headliner, Minnesota native, MyPillow CEO and Trump ally Michael Lindell. Lindell also recently donated to the bail fund of Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager charged with killing two people at a racial justice protest in Kenosha in August.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Wisconsin Trump election rally</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell speaks to the crowd. (Henry Redman | Wisconsin Examiner)]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Even though other Republicans on the elections commission have definitively announced there were no issues with the state’s election machines, Spindell stood by as Lindell claimed Trump lost Wisconsin because of issues with Dominion voting machines — a disproven conspiracy theory. </b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“I would like to stay officially on the record that I have complete confidence in the voting equipment in use in Wisconsin, that I think there is no evidence of systemic problems of software problems programming problems hacking, there’s no evidence of switched votes,” Republican commissioner Dean Knudson said last week.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Lindell, as he argued for the Electoral College to be bypassed so the selection of the president could go to state congressional delegations, stated that Trump had actually won in Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Arizona and Pennsylvania. </b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Lindell’s proof that Trump won these states was that on election night, the odds at the sportsbooks said Trump was the 3-1 favorite to win. Betting odds on presidential elections aren’t an adequate predictor of outcome. For example, PredictIt, a popular political prediction site, gave Hillary Clinton a chance at being elected president for most of 2020. </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[Wisconsin Trump election rally</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> A rally attendee sits draped in a “Thin Blue Line” pro-police blanket. (Henry Redman | Wisconsin Examiner)]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The most prominent speaker was Lindell, but the rally featured a number of other right-wing speakers who  spread conspiracy theories and railed against the threats of communism, socialism and Marxism that they believe President-elect Joe Biden represents. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The rally, which was part of a “March for Trump” bus tour, is stopping in 27 cities across the country in an attempt to somehow overturn the results of the election. </b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“We’re trying to go through all the corrupt states with all the corruption,” one speaker said.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[Wisconsin Trump election rally</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Release the Kraken is catchphrase for right wing conspiracies signifying the dubious legal strategy of conservative lawyer Sidney Powell. (Henry Redman | Wisconsin Examiner)]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But short of any legal remedies, which appear to be dwindling as the president continues to lose in court, the rally speakers said there are other options to fight the election results. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b>“The Electoral College is going to fear We the People,</b>” said another speaker. <b>“Learn our 2nd Amendment, we need to know how to fire those handguns, fire those rifles.”</b></span></div></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#330000">=
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</font></div><div><font color="#330000"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">READ MORE: <a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/voter-fraud/" target="_self" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">This hypnotherapist and failed politician helped fuel the never-ending hunt for election fraud in Wisconsin</a>  </font></strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/voter-fraud/ JAY STONE</b></font></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="#330000"><b>
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