Wisconsin identified 4,000 cases of voter fraud following the 2016 election, according to the MacIver Institute.
Presidents Trump has made allegations of “voter irregularities” in the 2020 election. It is unclear what those problems are, but it is almost certain, based on the state’s past presidential, election as time goes on cases will bear out.
In 2016, there were 3,871 cases where voters in the state couldn’t be verified, but of those cases, only 954 were referred to local district attorneys. State officials have said the law states that all of them should have been referred to local district attorneys.
There were 368,392 people who registered to vote on election day in 2016 and the state sent postcards to verify their addresses after the election. Of those, 10,461 came back undeliverable and local officials were able to reconcile all but the 3,871.
The local officials across the state chose not to refer the bulk of the unverifiable cases to district attorneys, flouting the law and potentially allowing for illegal voting to occur.
In Wisconsin, if a voter has not voted for four years, their registration can become deactivated.
A 2017 Elections Commissions report found that 381,495 notices were sent to people that year who hadn’t voted in four years and 351,733 registrations were deactivated because only 28,169 voters asked to have their registrations continued. There were 153,416 that were sent back as undeliverable and 189,702 who did not respond to the notice at all.
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