MADISON, WI (WSAU) – The Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) is mailing postcards this week to approximately 116,051 registered voters who have not voted in the past four years.
The postcards are titled “Official Voter Registration Notice.” State law requires the WEC to mail notices to registered voters who have not voted in four years. These voters have 30 days to respond and tell their clerks whether they want to remain active registered voters. If their clerk does not hear from them or if their mailing is undeliverable, their voter registration will be deactivated and they will need to reregister.
This mailing happens every two years following a November election. This week’s postcards are being sent to voters who have not voted since the November 2018 General Election. The postcard asks recipients whether they want to remain registered voters at that address.
To stay registered, voters who still live at the address on the postcard must sign the part of the postcard that says, “I hereby certify that I still reside at the address listed below, have not had a change of name, and want to stay registered to vote in Wisconsin” and return it to their municipal clerk. It must arrive by July 15. Voters who do not respond will have their status changed to inactive on July 31. The registration of a voter will also be inactivated if the Post Office is unable to deliver their postcard.
Wisconsin’s 2022 estimated voting-age population was 4,676,183 people, according to the latest numbers from the state’s Demographic Services Center. In 2021, the registrations of 174,307 voters, or 93% of people who were mailed postcards, were made inactive because the postcards were undeliverable, the voters who received them did not respond, or the voters who received the postcards asked to be removed from the active list.
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