Washington (CNN) Roughly 234,000 voters are to be removed from Wisconsin's rolls because they may have moved recently, a county judge ruled Friday. Ozaukee County Judge Paul Malloy instructed the Wisconsin Elections Commission to "abide by state law" in removing the voters, the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, a conservative law firm that filed a legal complaint that led to the ruling said Friday. Reid Magney, a spokesman for the elections commission, told CNN the group plans to meet and will discuss "next steps," including whether to appeal the decision. In a state viewed as a battleground in 2020, the removal of 234,000 voters from the rolls could have profound implications. In 2016, President Donald Trump won Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes through defeating Hillary Clinton by less than 23,000 votesWhen the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed the complaint in October , it argued that state law requires the commission to remove from the active voting rolls voters who hadn't responded to a recent mailing , made as part of a regular effort to update rolls, within 30 days.

Source: CNN December 14, 2019 03:29 UTC