Wisconsin to remove up to 188,000 from voter rolls because they have not voted in 4 years

[yellowdogintexas]

75. I know for a fact that we do not do that in Texas. We do some awful stuff but

we do not take folks off the voter registry just because they have not voted for a certain number of years.

My daughter has lived in Arizona for 12 years and votes there and she is still on the voter registry here. If I had returned her voter registration card as "no longer lives here" to the Elections Office she would have been removed after 2 election cycles. She has not voted here since 2008, maybe 2010. We get those cards every even year in January.

After I found out I needed to deny that little flimsy piece of paper, I started returning them with the last one we got in 2020 and then will return the 2022 one and she should be deleted. I tried to delete her myself as a precinct chair but it did not work, which is a good thing actually.

Those little cards do not serve as a substitute for a photo ID but they do let you know your voter registration is still in force and has all your various districts on it from Congressional all the way down to your home precinct. Also if you can't get a photo ID for some reason, if you bring some sort of official mail addressed to you where you live (utility bill, pay stub, bank statement etc). Having that card reinforces your registration info.

I do not know if our registries are screened for deaths. There ought to be a link between the Secretary of State's office and whichever office in Austin keeps up with birth and death certificates, but there does not seem to be one.