{"id":5460,"date":"2023-09-07T16:33:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T16:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=5460"},"modified":"2023-09-07T17:08:48","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T17:08:48","slug":"wisconsin-can-no-longer-use-the-national-mail-voter-registration-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=5460","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Can No Longer Use The National Mail Voter Registration Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/national-mail-voter-registration-form\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/national-mail-voter-registration-form\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/wisconsin-vote-wec-150x150-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"wec\" title=\"National Mail Voter Registration Form\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The National Mail Voter Registration Form is no longer allowed in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>Waukesha County Judge Michael Maxwell this week banned the form because it asks questions not allowed by Wisconsin law, including a question about a voter\u2019s race. The form also allowed people to register to vote in Wisconsin without providing other information required by state law.<\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty sued over the form and won.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe legal issue in the case was simply that the statute did not call for [the extra information], so by including those requests, the form went beyond the statute and was unlawful,\u201d WILL\u2019s Lucas Vebber told The Center Square. \u201cThe Judge never reached those issues though because he determined the form was never lawfully adopted in the first instance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maxwell said in his order the Wisconsin Elections Commission \u201cfailed in [its] most basic duty\u201d to register voters using the appropriate forms.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the Elections Commission didn\u2019t respond to questions from The Center Square.<\/p>\n<p>Neither WILL nor the Elections Commission knows just how many people in Wisconsin registered to vote using the national form.<\/p>\n<p>Vebber said it doesn\u2019t matter because the judge\u2019s order only affects voter registrations going forward, adding \u201cno one was removed from the voting rolls as a result of the decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Court gave them 14 days to withdraw all their illegal guidance, and to inform clerks that the national form cannot be used in Wisconsin. WEC could still appeal the decision,\u201d Vebber said.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin voters can register <a href=\"https:\/\/myvote.wi.gov\/en-us\/Register-To-Vote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online<\/a>, at their local election office and in-person at the polls on election day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/national-mail-voter-registration-form\/ The National Mail Voter Registration Form is no longer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":4396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5460"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5462,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5460\/revisions\/5462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}