“1/1/1918” WisVote Placeholder Registration Date – 569,277 Active Voters; 115,252 Voted in 2020 (WI)

Wisconsin’s WisVote statewide voter registration database contained 569,277 active voter registrations with an identical placeholder application date of January 1, 1918 – a date assigned, in many systems, to records where the actual registration date is unknown, missing, or was not properly recorded. Of these 569,277 registrations with the suspicious uniform placeholder date, 115,252 are recorded in the WisVote voter history file as having cast a ballot in the November 2020 election. Wisconsin law (Wis. Stat. § 6.27) requires that all voter registrations contain accurate information including the date of registration. A voter registered with a placeholder date has not been properly entered into the system; the legitimacy of ballots attributed to such entries cannot be verified without examining the underlying registration documentation, if any exists.