Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules State Shouldn’t Purge Thousands of Voters Who May Have Moved From Rolls

People check in to vote at a polling place in Sun Prairie, Wis., on April 7, 2020. Andy Manis/Getty Images

Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, in siding with Democrats, ruled that the state should not purge voters from rolls after they are flagged as possibly having moved out of the state.

The court’s 5–2 ruling (pdf) means about 69,000 people on the list of likely movers won’t have their voter registrations deactivated. Republicans had sought to purge the voter rolls for years.