MADISON, Wis. — More than 100,000 voter records have been deactivated, the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) said Friday.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission deactivated 108,378 voter records through the four-year maintenance process required by law.

WEC Administrator Meagan Wolfe said the individuals who were deactivated have not voted in the past four years and do not have a record of responding to a mailing from the agency regarding their registration status.

“The four-year maintenance process helps keep our voter registration database as clean and updated as possible,” Wolfe said. “The deactivations are a combination of voters who have moved to a new address without re-registering, voters who have died, others who have asked to have their registrations deactivated, and those who simply have not voted.”

She said voters who have moved from their previous registration address can simply re-register with their new address.

The WEC works closely with local election officials as part of this biennial update of the statewide registration list, which is required by law, Wolfe said.

“The Wisconsin Elections Commission and its staff take voter list maintenance very seriously,” Wolfe said. “Along with the four-year maintenance effort, the WEC works continually with local election officials to help keep the registration lists current.”

The WEC is required by law every two years to conduct voter record maintenance to identify individuals who have not voted in the previous four years and to deactivate them unless they wish to remain registered. Wolfe said the required review helps ensure the integrity of the statewide voter database.

Those whose voter record is deactivated can no longer vote using that voter record and must re-register to vote at their current address.

In June, the WEC identified 116,051 registered voters with no record of voting since the November 2018 general election. The WEC mailed “Notice of Suspension” postcards to these voters, asking them whether they wanted to remain active on the state’s voter list.

Voters had 30 days to mail a return postcard to their municipal clerk to remain active. There were 77,726 voters who did not respond to the notice and 30,856 notices that were returned as undeliverable.

Voters with no record of responding or whose postcard was returned as undeliverable by the Post Office were deactivated. Wolfe noted there were a small number of individuals who did respond, but were deactivated by clerks for other reasons.

There are more than 3.4 million active registered voters in Wisconsin, per the WEC, as of Tuesday.