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Wisconsin Supreme Court to decide if counties must release voter incompetency records

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The entrance to the Wisconsin Supreme Court chambers in the state Capitol in Madison, Wis. The court on Thursday, March 14, 2024 ruled that religious exemptions to the state's unemployment tax don't apply to a Superior-based Catholic charities ministry. (AP Photo/Todd Richmond)

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court will decide if counties must release voter incompetency records.

The Wisconsin Voters Alliance sued Walwoth County’s register in probate in 2022 seeking records indicating a judge has found someone incompetent to vote. The group has alleged that the number of ineligible voters doesn’t match tallies on the the state’s public voter database.

The 2nd District Court of Appeals held the records are public and the county must release them with birthdates and case numbers redacted.

The county’s register in probate, Kristina Secord, asked the Supreme Court to review that ruling. The court issued a two-page order Tuesday afternoon saying it would take the case. The order offered no other details beyond mandating that the first briefs be filed within 30 days.

The Wisconsin Voters Alliance brought two failed lawsuits seeking to overturn President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory.

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  1. Jackprong

    March 20, 2024 at 12:00 pm

    During the 2020 elections, there was a nursing home patient that voted for the first time since started in the nursing home system during the 1970s.
    https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/breaking-full-video-interviews-wi-nursing-home-patients-who-voted-2020
    In the case of one nursing home resident, Walt Jankowski, he has been institutionalized since the 1970s. The 2020 presidential election is the only one with a record of him voting since being in a home, his son told Kaardal.

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