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A federal judge in Wisconsin has dismissed a lawsuit seeking to remove the witness requirement on absentee ballots.

The lawsuit, filed by the law firm of Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias, sought to cancel the witness requirement for voters who cast absentee ballots on the grounds that it violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Civil Rights Act of 1964.

In a scathing ruling, U.S. District Judge James Peterson said that the "demand simply does not make any sense."

"Under plaintiffs' interpretation, every witness would have to determine the voter's age, residence, citizenship, criminal history, whether the voter is unable or unwilling to vote, whether the voter has voted at another location or is planning to do so, whether the voter is capable of understanding the objective of the voting process, whether the voter is under a guardianship, and, if so, whether a court has determined that the voter is competent," he wrote.

On Tuesday, the Georgia State Election Board (SEB) heard several election complaints, including the long-anticipated SEB 2023-025 submitted in July 2022. After almost two years, investigators for the SEB and Georgia Secretary of State's Office presented their findings. The claimants were not permitted to speak during the hearing.

During the discussion of Complaint 2023-025, however, another reference was made regarding Complaint 2021-181 (and 2022-025), which was based on the "Risk-Limiting Audit" (full hand-count) that Fulton County performed after the 2020 Presidential Election. This resulted in a heated but limited debate between a SEB Member and the complainant.

Rossi, a Georgia resident, has been investigating the 2020 Presidential Election and subsequent elections in the State of Georgia for several years. In September 2021, Rossi submitted evidence to Governor Brian Kemp's office evidencing "36 inconsistencies" that contradicted the Risk Limiting Audit Report findings regarding the Fulton County hand-count of the 2020 Election. Rossi's findings only involved the approximately 148,000 absentee ballots cast in Fulton (out of more than 520,000 total ballots cast).

Fulton County double-scanned ballots and they didn't keep the required ballot images, as required by Georgia law.380,000 ballot images are missing in Fulton County.

Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill into law on Tuesday, establishing rules and processes regarding voter registration and how elections are conducted.

Kemp signed Senate Bill 189 (SB 189) into law on Tuesday, Kemp's press secretary Garrison Douglas confirmed to USA Today.

Under SB 189, a process would be created to help each county remove certain voters from its voter registration database.

The law also establishes new rules regarding how homeless people can register to vote, explaining that homeless people without a permanent address must use the "registrar's office" in their county as their mailing address for "election purposes."

More than 200,000 people in North Carolina are on the state's voter rolls despite missing the full details of their social security number.

According to a report from The Federalist, the records of approximately 224,000 people are simply "missing" the last four digits of their Social Security number (SSN) and their driver's license identification number.

South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster on Wednesday announced he launched an investigation after a non-citizen 'refugee' received a voter registration form.

The government is giving voter registration forms to non-citizen 'refugees.'

According to South Carolina state representative and congressional candidate Adam Morgan, the state government is including voter registration forms in packets at the Social Security Office in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

"Is the Federal Gov giving voter registration forms to non-citizens?" Adam Morgan said on X earlier this week (this was later corrected to the state of South Carolina).