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by Benjamin Yount

Wisconsin’s Republican U.S. Senator says it’s not accidental Wisconsin’s voter rolls remain filled with dead people and voters who have moved out of state.

Sen. Ron Johnson was on Fox Business over the weekend, and once again criticized Democrats for wanting “to make it easy to cheat in elections.”

“They’re not going to clean up the voter rolls. In Wisconsin for example, we have about 7.5 million people on our voter rolls [and] we only have 3.5 million people eligible to vote. But we can’t get our Democratic governor and our Election Commission [which is] also populated by a bunch of radical leftists, to actually clean up those voter rolls,” Johnson said. “They want to make it easy to cheat. I know we’re not supposed to say that, but to me it’s just obvious is the nose on your face.”

Once on Wisconsin’s voter list, no one ever comes off. They are classified as either active or inactive.

Johnson went on to attack the Biden-Harris Administration on immigration, saying Democrats are keeping the border open in an effort to find new voters.

“We need some kind of, overall federal law, that says you must be a citizen to vote in federal elections,” Johnson added. “That’d be a good first step. I’m sure Democrats in the Senate will reject it because Democrats, let’s face it, let’s be honest, Democrats want to make it easy to cheat. They let millions of people in this country to vote for them. They want to change elections. That is what this is all been about.”

Federal law does makes it illegal for non-U.S. citizens to vote in federal elections.

Wisconsin’s elections managers have said while no one ever falls off the state’s voter rolls, millions of the seven-and-a-half million people on the rolls are inactive. That means they haven’t voted in years, and would have to reregister if they ever want to vote again.

Johnson has been critical of Wisconsin’s Election Commission, and the state’s election laws since the 2020 election.

Republican lawmakers in the state tried to close what they call 2020 election loopholes and have tried to pass a law that would allow only U.S. citizens to vote in the state, but Gov. Tony Evers scuttled those attempts.

Currently in Wisconsin, a person must be a U.S. citizen to be eligible to vote in statewide elections, according to state law.

Despite that requirement, lawmakers did put a question on the November ballot that asks voters in the state if they want a constitutional amendment that allows only U.S. citizens to vote in elections in the state.

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Benjamin Yount is a contributor to The Center Square.
Photo “Voting Station” by Joe Shlabotnik CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

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