Congrats you've fallen (and continue to argue) for a debunked conspiracy theory originating on Facebook. I don't ever discuss politics on Facebook, but if I did I would be very hesitant to accept anything posted from someone less intelligent than me as any degree of factual. You can usually tell how educated or ignorant someone is by the style of their communication. I naturally assume that a large percentage of the people posting here are college grads, but my assumptions regrading people on Facebook are basically the exact opposite...
Politifact debunked this as it relates to Wisconsin back in January, and that was after the same claims had been made in other states, including PA, AZ, OH,NC etc...Again this info was reported in Jan, before this phony claim was made in this new release from this week... The initial claim came from a video posted on FB by a (since fired) local Fox news personality, who basically used it as clickbait to drive traffic to her (undoubtedly monetized) you tube channel...
- "Wisconsin municipalities kept their own registration records — and the smallest municipalities weren’t required to keep records at all — until a 2002 federal law required a statewide database and a standard format.
- When a municipality’s system didn’t track a voter’s date of birth or initial date of registration, a default date was entered into the statewide system: 1/1/1900 for date of birth and 1/1/1918 for date of registration. Such placeholders for missing information have been used by other states as well.
- As of the fall of 2021 in Wisconsin, there were still about 3,700 active voter records that contain default information for date of birth and about 120,000 records exist in the system with a default date of voter registration."
The whole thing is a huge pile of nothing since there is no maximum age limit as to how old someone can be and still vote. Obviously if the transfer of records occurred after passage of the 2002 law, none of the people affected would be less than 18 yrs ol, and they would all have voted at some point previously. These are not new voters, and it's telling that the person who is making these claims is a retired judge, not someone of either party who has experience in the field and would be aware of how the process works...
The Wisconsin Elections Commission (made up of equal Dem and GOP members) addressed the issue in 2020...
"Default dates of birth and voter registration dates in the WisVote database is not a newly discovered issue or an indication of voter fraud," the state wrote in 2020. The older dates are a result of the state migrating over hundreds of municipal records into a state system."
There aren’t 120,000 Wisconsin voters who registered in 1918
A video on Facebook suggests that the Wisconsin voter rolls are padded with tens of thousands of voters who registered t
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