Across America, there is a constant war being waged over voter rolls. Democrats resist any effort to purge the rolls, contending that any diminution of names on the rolls constitutes voter suppression and is manifestly intended to keep minorities from voting. Conservatives strongly support existing laws to purge from voter rolls names associated with people who have passed away or moved on. They argue that doing so preserves voting integrity by making it more difficult for the cemetery vote to affect election outcomes.

In Wisconsin, a battle is being waged before an Ozaukee County judge who has reached the end of his patience with the Elections Commission and three of its members because they refuse to abide by his December order that they remove thousands of non-viable names from the state's voting records:

"I can't be any clearer than this," Judge Paul Malloy said. "They need to follow my order." He said the commission must pay $50 a day until it starts taking people off the rolls. In addition, he's charging the three Democrats on the commission who have fought taking people off the rolls — Ann Jacobs, Julie Glancey and Mark Thomsen — $250 a day each.

The stakes are high, which explains the Democrats' reluctance to follow the order:

At issue is the voting status of more than 200,000 people in one of the most politically prized states in the 2020 presidential election. Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton in 2016 by fewer than 23,000 votes, becoming the first Republican to take the state's electoral votes since 1984.

As is always the case when these matters arise, a small crowd of protesters stood outside in the cold, complaining bitterly that cleaning the rolls of people who have long since died or moved away marks the death of democracy. The fact that Wisconsin has online registration, or that people can register at the polls on election days, did not assuage their concerns:

Dozens of people, many with tape over their mouths, held a rally outside the courthouse before the hearing. Rev. Greg Lewis, president of Souls to the Polls, said he worried the legal fight would lead to so much confusion that some people would give up on trying to vote. "This is not checkers. It's chess, and the people who are doing this understand that the frustration will cause a lot of people not to even want to vote," he said.

One of the constants in Democrat politics is the belief of white Democrats (AKA useful idiots) that minority voters, as a group, are too stupid to function without the nanny state wrapped around them. We'll end this post with a reminder from Ami Horowitz about how Leftist whites really view black voters: