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The GOP had filed a petition last week questioning addresses of 5,619 registered voters and seeking to have their names removed from the voting list, but the city Election Commission refused.

The Republicans then came up with a new list of more than 37,000 questionable addresses Saturday and demanded that the city require those voters to produce identification before allowing them to cast ballots.

City Attorney Grant Langley called that request outrageous, and said a check of the original list of 5,619 registrations had found "hundreds and hundreds and hundreds" of legitimate addresses.

GOP, Milwaukee agree on voter list
November 1, 2004

MILWAUKEE --The Wisconsin Republican Party and the city of Milwaukee agreed to distribute to polling places a list of 5,512 prospective voters whose addresses are questionable.

The GOP had sought to question the validity of thousands of other voters.

Under Sunday's agreement, people on the list who seek to vote will be asked to fill out a change of address card or registration form, and to show proof of residency.

Anyone who does not have proof of residency at an address on the list will have to take an oath, and that person's ballot will be marked as being challenged. Those ballots will be counted, but another decision on whether they count could be made if there is a recount, Deputy City Attorney Linda Burke said Monday.