The News: The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) will be in Washington, D.C. this week to advocate for Voter ID as well as efforts to protect elections through improved voter roll maintenance, oversight, and other election integrity measures.
Deputy Counsel Lucas Vebber will share his expertise at a roundtable of election integrity experts convened by Congressman Bryan Steil. Chairman Steil leads the Committee on House Administration, which has oversight authority over federal elections.
Tuesday, February 24
Longworth House Office Building RM 1310
1 Independence Ave SE,
Washington, DC 20003
10:00 AM
Why Our Visit Matters: On Jan. 30, 2026, Chairman Steil introduced the Make Elections Great Again (MEGA) Act. According to Steil’s office, the goal of H.R. 7300 is to implement common sense baseline standards for the administration of federal elections. Congress is also considering the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. The SAVE Act would require state voter registration applications to show proof of U.S. citizenship to vote in a federal election. WILL supports both the SAVE Act and MEGA Act.
Our Take: WILL Deputy Counsel, Lucas Vebber, stated, “At WILL, we work to improve election security, uphold the rule of law, and hold officials accountable. As Congress weighs major reforms to America’s election system, our work continues to serve as a reliable, nonpartisan resource to address critical gaps in our election integrity infrastructure.”
WILL’s Leading Expertise on Election Integrity: WILL recently identified serious concerns regarding the Wisconsin Election Commission’s (WEC) maintenance of Wisconsin’s statewide voter registration list. WILL’s new findings now show that over 41,000 voter registration records cannot be reconciled with the data maintained by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (DOT). While this does not necessarily indicate widespread voter fraud, we believe the issues are far too extensive for WEC to continue to ignore.
In 2025, WILL released a new report, “Doing the Math: How Voter ID Laws Affect Turnout in Wisconsin,” which found that since the enactment of Wisconsin’s voter ID requirements ten years ago, overall voter turnout in the state has increased. Our analysis also found no evidence of disenfranchisement among minority groups or in Dane and Milwaukee counties, countering claims of negative effects on voter participation.
In 2021, WILL released a comprehensive and highly respected audit of Wisconsin’s 2020 election. While that report addressed many areas of election administration, one key question remained unanswered: the extent of non-citizen voting. This new roadmap directly addresses that gap, providing policymakers with the tools to enforce the will of voters. The WSJ referred to this report as “The Best Summary of the 2020 Election.”
Read More:
- “Doing the Math: How Voter ID Laws Affect Turnout in Wisconsin,” March 2025
- A Review of the 2020 Election, December 2021
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