evidence: But there was more here than the usual partisan rancor: A single case from the Wisconsin Supreme Court's previous session had ended in a tie, because Kelly had recused himself. This case turned on a dull bureaucratic process, but one with alarming ramifications. A massive purge of the voter rolls had been planned for 2020, but it was delayed over fears that a lot of legitimate, mostly Democratic, voters would get cut. The tie-breaking vote would decide the timing of the purge—before or after the November presidential election. Karofsky was a likely "after" vote. What happened next made the stakes glaringly obvious. Karofsky won the election, setting the stage for a delayed purge. But then the conservative judge decided to do something so legally bizarre that the very word used to describe his action is not yet in Webster's Dictionary. With three months left in his lame-duck judgeship, Kelly decided to "unrecuse" himself, and suddenly a purge of 129,000 names seemed possible. [...] Meanwhile, in Wisconsin, the state supreme court decided in early July that it wouldn't fast-track the voter purge after all. The court will hear arguments in the case in September, but given the timing and Wisconsin law, a purge is unlikely until 2021. Two judges dissented from that opinion: One was David Kelly, who will be replaced by Karofsky in August.