[5] Wisconsin's Attorney General Josh Kaul filed a notice of appeal to halt the purging, acting on behalf of the state's Elections Commission which was split 3-3, and requested a stay of Malloy's order.
The lawsuit demanded that the Wisconsin Election Commission respond to a "Movers Report," generated from voter data analysis produced by the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), a national, non-partisan partnership funded in 2012 by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
[9] On January 2, 2020, WILL said it asked the circuit court to hold the Elections Commission in contempt, fining it up to $12,000 daily, until it advanced Malloy's December 17, 2019, order to purge from the voting rolls hundreds of thousands of registered voters who possibly have moved to a different address.
"[11] The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel assessed the list of voters subject to being purged because they were presumed to have moved, finding that about 55 percent of those registrants had been living in municipalities which Hillary Clinton had won in the 2016 election.
[13] On April 7, 2020, effective on August 1, 2020, voters ousted Daniel Kelly, a conservative Supreme Court justice, an appointee of Governor Scott Walker, by a margin of 120,000 votes.
[14] The Wisconsin Supreme Court heard the case about purging of the voter rolls on October 4, 2020, but was not expected to make a decision before the November election.