AB 1201

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

candidates, 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 the

presidential electors pledged to that slate of candidates. The presidential electors

of the winning candidates for president and vice president convene after the election,

vote for the candidates to whom they are pledged, and transmit their votes to the

state's chief elections inspector—the administrator of the Wisconsin Elections

Commission—and to Congress.

This bill prohibits any person who was nominated as a presidential elector

pledged to losing candidates for president and vice president in a presidential

election and who convened with other presidential electors pledged to those losing

candidates who then cast votes for those losing candidates in the election and

transmitted or attempted to transmit their votes to the administrator of the

Elections Commission, or to Congress for purposes of presidential elections held

prior to the bill's effective date, from doing any of the following:

1. Serving in the office of presidential elector for Wisconsin.

2. Serving as a member of the Elections Commission or its staff.

3. Serving as the administrator of the Elections Commission.

4. Serving as an election official. Under current law, any individual who is

charged with any duties relating to the conduct of an election is an election official.