NEW: Swing State’s Voter Rolls Have 41,000 Discrepancies, Bombshell Report Reveals
Recent data showing tens of thousands of questionable voter registrations in Wisconsin has election-integrity watchdogs sounding the alarm — and demanding answers from state officials ahead of 2024.
The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty says more than 41,000 voter registrations don’t match the state’s driver and ID records — nearly double the amount flagged during the last presidential race. The group warns the spike raises serious questions about how the state verifies new voters.
“In a suspicious development, it’s been exposed that a whopping 41,000 Wisconsin voters’ registration files do NOT match the driver and ID database… nearly DOUBLE from 2020,” WILL wrote in a recent post highlighting the mismatch surge.
State records show 11,174 active registrations missing a driver’s license number, nearly triple the 2020 figure. Another 24,733 registrations show name discrepancies, up sharply from 15,260. Smaller categories include 680 mismatched names and birthdates and 2,069 that couldn’t be matched in the system at all.
The total represents roughly 1.1% of Wisconsin’s active voter roll — a small slice, but in a battleground state where elections are often razor-thin, it’s enough to raise eyebrows. Joe Biden carried Wisconsin by just over 20,000 votes in 2020.
WILL Deputy Counsel Lucas Vebber cautioned against jumping to conclusions, but said the discrepancies deserve scrutiny.
“We’re not in any way saying that these 40,000 votes were fraudulent votes,” Vebber said. “We don’t know that. We don’t even know if these 40,000 names were even voters in the election. We know that they’re on the voter registration list and it’s certainly likely, of course, that some of them voted.”
“But we don’t know because we don’t know who voted and we don’t know what all the discrepancies are. It could be something innocuous, it could be something more serious. But our point in the letter is just saying this is serious enough that questions need to be answered and we need a little more transparency here from the government.”
One concern: online registrations are automatically checked against state ID records — but paper applicants, including those registering on Election Day, go through an opaque process.
“If you register to vote online… they will instantly check that number against the DOT database. If anything’s inaccurate, they will not allow you to register to vote. If you submit a paper application… WEC won’t tell us what process they used to verify the information,” Vebber said.
WILL is now calling for a federal investigation, accusing the Wisconsin Election Commission of ignoring clear warning signs.
“That should sound alarm bells, but WEC continues to ignore the issue,” Vebber said.
A Waukesha County judge has ordered the WEC to verify voter data against state transportation records — but that ruling is on hold pending an appeal, leaving mismatched registrations untouched for now.
Lawmakers have also pressed WEC for answers, with little response. That silence only fuels suspicion in a state already scarred by bitter election fights and sky-high turnout controversies.
“What are they doing to ensure the integrity of our voter registration list?” Vebber asked.
For now, the public still doesn’t know. But with registration discrepancies climbing and oversight questions multiplying, Wisconsin’s election administrators face growing pressure to clean up the rolls — and restore confidence before voters head to the polls again.
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