Bills · 2023-2024 Regular Session
Relating to: persons previously nominated as presidential electors serving in certain public offices related to elections.
Elections — Officials Elections — Registration Elections commission Presidential electors
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
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Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
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.
Sponsors
Full history
- Mar 27, 2024 · Senate
Introduced by Senators Hesselbein, L. Johnson, Larson and Spreitzer; cosponsored by Representatives Haywood, Joers, Ratcliff, Emerson, Bare, Snodgrass, Sinicki, Conley, Moore Omokunde, Andraca, Considine, Hong and Ohnstad
- Mar 27, 2024 · Senate
Read first time and referred to Committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection
- Apr 1, 2024 · Senate
Representative Neubauer added as a cosponsor
- Apr 15, 2024 · Senate
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1