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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

SB 61

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Relating to: the method of selecting presidential electors.

Presidential electors

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, the political parties and the independent and write-in

candidates for president and vice president nominate one presidential elector from

each congressional district and two electors from the state at large. At the election

for president and vice president, a vote for a slate of candidates for president and vice

president is a vote for that candidate's presidential electors. Currently, all

presidential electors are elected on a statewide basis.

Under this bill, each slate of candidates for president and vice president that

wins a congressional district receives one presidential elector and the slate of

candidates that wins the state at large receives two additional presidential electors.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Ballweg (R) , Jacque (R) , Kooyenga (R)

5 cosponsors

Dittrich (R) , Kuglitsch (R) , Ramthun (R) , Skowronski (R) , Tauchen (R)

Full history

  1. Feb 5, 2021 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Kooyenga, Jacque and Ballweg; cosponsored by Representatives Tauchen, Ramthun, Dittrich, Kuglitsch and Skowronski

  2. Feb 5, 2021 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Elections, Election Process Reform and Ethics

  3. Mar 15, 2022 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1