Wisconsin Loophole Allows Nearly 150,000 to Vote Without Showing Photo ID; Voter ID ‘Loophole’ Ripe ‘For Exploitation’ In Election Battleground, Legal Group Warns; Voter ID Loophole Could Undermine Trust in 2024 Election Results, Report Warns

Wisconsin loophole allows nearly 150,000 to vote without showing photo ID:

A damning report is raising the alarm about a legal loophole allowing thousands to vote in Wisconsin without showing photo identification as required by state law.

The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty’s Monday morning release reveals the “indefinitely confined” voter rolls have reached more than 144,000, up 116% since 2016.

This state accommodation designed for the disabled, elderly, ill and infirm came under the spotlight in 2020 when Wisconsin’s two largest cities — Milwaukee and Madison — told citizens to use the little-known law to vote without a photo ID during COVID restrictions.

President Biden won the state by almost 21,000 votes in 2020; former President Donald Trump won by about 27,000 in 2016. Polls show Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris neck and neck this year.

Dairy Staters are required to show a government-issued photo ID when voting but not when registering to vote. “Indefinitely confined” voters check a box when registering to sign up for automatic absentee ballots “for every election” until they are no longer indefinitely confined or fail to return a ballot.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court put a stop to that, but it didn’t keep the indefinitely confined voter rolls from quadrupling from almost 67,000 in 2016 to more 265,000 in 2020 — about 8% of the total votes cast four years ago.

Thanks to state law requiring voter-roll cleanups, the number of voters with indefinitely confined status is down to just over 144,000 but still more than twice what it was in 2016.

Five Democratic strongholds have the highest number of voters with indefinitely confined status: Madison, Milwaukee, Green Bay, Kenosha and Janesville, all of which went hard for Biden in 2020. —>READ MORE HERE

Voter ID ‘Loophole’ Ripe ‘For Exploitation’ In Election Battleground, Legal Group Warns:

A conservative legal group warned Monday of a “loophole” that allows thousands of voters in Wisconsin to cast a ballot without showing identification.

The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) released a research report that said there are 144,347 people in the Badger State classified as “indefinitely confined,” meaning that they could cast an absentee ballot without showing ID. Indefinitely confined rates skyrocketed during the 2020 election and allowed tens of thousands to cast absentee ballots.

“Wisconsin has a strong voter ID requirement in place, but there is one loophole that is ripe for exploitation. In Wisconsin, voters can claim they are ‘Indefinitely Confined,’ a status that allows a voter to continually receive an absentee ballot without ever showing an ID,” the report from WILL researcher Will Flanders said.

Flanders said that while the number of voters classified as “indefinitely confined” had come down from 2020, it was still 116% higher than it was back in 2016 as of July 2024. He added that there were still thousands of voters who should be removed from the list under state law.

“Per state law, clerks are to remove voters if they vote in-person or do not vote in any election. Those voters must sign and return a form to retain that status,” the report noted.

According to Flanders, voters who should have received a notice of potential removal from the “indefinitely confined” list include 24,800 who didn’t vote in the April election, 2,788 who haven’t voted at all since 2020, and 2,595 who voted in person in April. —>READ MORE HERE

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