With just over two months to go before Election Day, swing state Wisconsin’s elections regulator is being accused of failing to verify the citizenship of registered voters, leading to potentially thousands of “registrants unlawfully included on” the Badger State’s voter rolls.
A recent lawsuit filed in Waukesha County Circuit Court by Pewaukee resident and longtime election integrity activist Ardis Cerny alleges the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation are failing to do their duty to verify the citizenship of applicants registering to vote. That includes matching “DOT’s citizenship information against [voter] registrant information in the WisVote list,” the state’s voter registration database. Doing so is critical in verifying the accuracy of the citizenship information provided by applicants on — or coming onto — the voter rolls, the lawsuit asserts.
Cerny, represented by Wisconsin election law attorneys Michael Dean and Kevin Scott, argues that the WEC and the DOT have violated her voting rights and those of her fellow legally qualified and registered voters. As a Wisconsin taxpayer, Cerny also asserts the government agencies are unlawfully spending state tax dollars in failing to use all available data tools to verify the eligibility of individuals registering to vote.
She is seeking a writ of mandamus, a court order demanding the election regulator and the DOT do their jobs under state election law.
“[Cerny] and other legally qualified and registered eligible Wisconsin electors have rights to cast their votes in free and transparent elections without cancellation by
