Persons previously nominated as presidential electors serving in certain public offices related to elections

What it would have done

Summary by the Legislative Reference Bureau, the Legislature's nonpartisan drafting office. It's their wording, not ours.

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:

Who's behind it

4 senators are its authors⁠. All 4 are Democrats.

14 more lawmakers signed on in support⁠.