The Help America Vote Act of 2002 (“HAVA”) required “statewide” voter registration in Wisconsin (and all other states with a population greater than 500,000 residents) and it required the state agency overseeing elections to maintain a database of voters in all cities, villages, and towns in Wisconsin (approximately 1,850 across 72 counties). In municipalities with more than 5,000 in population, voter registration was required and was tracked in many different databases and spreadsheets maintained by those municipalities – not by the state of Wisconsin in any central location. Prior to 2005 voter registration in municipalities with less than 5,000 in population was not required in Wisconsin. Here is why those seemingly odd, and old, dates exist in WisVote: Individuals and advocacy groups reporting that a date of birth or a registration date for a voter in WisVote is a sign of fraud, hacking or some other irregularity that impacted an election are unfortunately contributing to misinformation about Wisconsin elections, based on a lack of understanding of how SVRS and WisVote came into existence more than 15 years ago.This information has been in the State Voter Registration System (SVRS) and WisVote system since at least 2006 and is the result of data migration from over 200 different legacy voter registration systems maintained by individual municipalities that in 2005 were moved into the comprehensive statewide system. Default dates of birth and voter registration dates in the WisVote database is not a newly discovered issue or an indication of voter fraud.You have to tell a computer to ignore a leading zero (as Excel does).įinally, the use of alpha-numeric codes including zeros makes Wisconsin voter registration ‘numbers’ significantly more complex than a mere number.Ĭharacters Number of Possibilities Alpha-Numeric Number of Possibilities Numeric Only (1-9)ġ0 10,104,934,110,000,000,000,000 9,999,999,999 To the computer, the character zero is just like any other and its meaning must be defined.
A computer considers each individual character equally.
It’s worth remembering that computers don’t "read" numbers like we do. Or use dedicated database software such as Access to open the file. To preserve the digits, a user must access the original CSV file and import it to Excel using the “Get Data” tool. If someone opens a CSV (Comma Separated Value) file in Excel without preserving leading zeros, Excel will erase them all. For example, Microsoft Excel will automatically remove leading zeros from entries it identifies as numbers. This small distinction sometimes causes confusion because people (and some common programs) often ignore leading zeros. Thus, the registration number is really a special code and not merely a number. They may also begin with any character, including a zero. This means they may include both numbers and letters. Wisconsin voter registration numbers consist of at least 9 characters and are alpha-numeric. All Wisconsin voter registration numbers are unique.
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