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Bills · 2013-2014 Regular Session

SB 262

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Relating to: labeling of duplicate ballots.

Elections — Ballots Elections — Officials Elections — Registration Government accountability board Governor

  1. Introduced, completed
  2. Passes Senate, completed
  3. Passes Assembly, completed
  4. Governor signs, completed
  5. Law, completed

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Current law permits an election official to create a duplicate of an elector's

ballot when one of two circumstances occur: 1) the elector's original ballot is damaged

or defective such that the ballot cannot be properly counted by automatic tabulating

equipment; or 2) the elector has overvoted for an office by voting for an identified

candidate as well as a write-in candidate for the same office. In the first

circumstance, the election official duplicates the elector's ballot in its entirety. In the

second circumstance, the election official duplicates the elector's original ballot but

does not complete that portion of the ballot for the office for which the elector

overvoted. Current law requires the election official to retain and write "Damaged

Ballot" or "Overvoted Ballot" on the elector's original ballot. Current law also

requires the election official to write "Duplicate Damaged Ballot" or "Duplicate

Overvoted Ballot" on the duplicate ballot.

This bill requires the election official to uniformly write the identity of these

ballots and duplicate ballots on the upper right-hand corner of the ballot.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Darling (R) , Grothman (R) , Lazich (R) , Vukmir (R)

2 cosponsors

Kleefisch (R) , Sanfelippo (R)

Votes

Senate: Report passage as amended recommended by Elections and Urban Affairs, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Sep 12, 2013 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Report adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 1 recommended by Elections and Urban Affairs, Ayes 5, Noes 0

Passed 5–0 Sep 12, 2013 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Senate: Read a third time and passed, Ayes 22, Noes 11

Passed 22–11 Oct 8, 2013 official source full page

Full history

  1. Aug 21, 2013 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Lazich, Vukmir, Grothman and Darling; cosponsored by Representative Sanfelippo

  2. Aug 21, 2013 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Elections and Urban Affairs

  3. Sep 4, 2013 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  4. Sep 11, 2013 · Senate

    Senate Substitute Amendment 1 offered by Senator Lazich

  5. Sep 12, 2013 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  6. Sep 12, 2013 · Senate

    Report adoption of Senate Substitute Amendment 1 recommended by Elections and Urban Affairs, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  7. Sep 12, 2013 · Senate

    Report passage as amended recommended by Elections and Urban Affairs, Ayes 5, Noes 0

  8. Sep 12, 2013 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  9. Sep 13, 2013 · Senate

    Representative Kleefisch added as a cosponsor

  10. Oct 7, 2013 · Senate

    Placed on calendar 10-8-2013 pursuant to Senate Rule 18(1)

  11. Oct 8, 2013 · Senate

    Read a second time

  12. Oct 8, 2013 · Senate

    Senate Substitute Amendment 1 adopted

  13. Oct 8, 2013 · Senate

    Ordered to a third reading

  14. Oct 8, 2013 · Senate

    Rules suspended

  15. Oct 8, 2013 · Senate

    Read a third time and passed, Ayes 22, Noes 11

  16. Oct 8, 2013 · Senate

    Ordered immediately messaged

  17. Oct 9, 2013 · Assembly

    Received from Senate

  18. Oct 22, 2013 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to committee on Rules

  19. Jan 8, 2014 · Assembly

    Placed on calendar 1-14-2014 by Committee on Rules

  20. Jan 14, 2014 · Assembly

    Read a second time

  21. Jan 14, 2014 · Assembly

    Ordered to a third reading

  22. Jan 14, 2014 · Assembly

    Rules suspended

  23. Jan 14, 2014 · Assembly

    Read a third time and concurred in

  24. Jan 14, 2014 · Assembly

    Ordered immediately messaged

  25. Jan 15, 2014 · Senate

    Received from Assembly concurred in

  26. Jan 17, 2014 · Senate

    Report correctly enrolled

  27. Mar 26, 2014 · Senate

    Presented to the Governor on 3-26-2014

  28. Apr 2, 2014 · Senate

    Report approved by the Governor on 4-2-2014. 2013 Wisconsin Act 179

  29. Apr 2, 2014 · Senate

    Published 4-3-2014