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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

SB 523

Died at session end Official bill text Atom feed

Relating to: poll list numbers marked on certain absentee ballots.

Elections — Ballots Elections — Officials Municipality — Elections

  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, in a municipality using a municipal board of absentee ballot canvassers to canvass absentee ballots in an election, the board of absentee ballot canvassers must assign a poll list number to each absent elector and mark the number on the back of the absentee ballot. This bill eliminates the requirement that the poll list number be marked on the back of absentee ballots.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Dassler-Alfheim (D) , Hesselbein (D) , Keyeski (D) , L. Johnson (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Wirch (D)

14 cosponsors

Andraca (D) , Arney (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Emerson (D) , J. Jacobson (D) , Johnson (D) , McCarville (D) , Palmeri (D) , Roe (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stroud (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Udell (D)

Registered lobbying interests · 1

Organizations that registered lobbying activity on this bill with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. Registration means interest, not a position for or against. Official record

Full history

  1. Oct 9, 2025 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Spreitzer, Dassler-Alfheim, L. Johnson, Keyeski, Ratcliff, Wirch and Hesselbein; cosponsored by Representatives Snodgrass, Andraca, Arney, DeSmidt, Emerson, Johnson, McCarville, Roe, Stroud, Stubbs, Udell and Palmeri

  2. Oct 9, 2025 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development

  3. Oct 10, 2025 · Senate

    Representative Subeck added as a cosponsor

  4. Feb 9, 2026 · Senate

    Representative J. Jacobson added as a cosponsor

  5. Mar 23, 2026 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1