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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 312
June 6, 2025 - Introduced by Representatives
Krug
,
Sortwell
,
Behnke
,
Dittrich
,
Gundrum
,
Kaufert
,
Knodl
,
Kreibich
,
Murphy
,
Mursau
,
O'Connor
and
Piwowarczyk
, cosponsored by Senators
Cabral-Guevara
and
Nass
. Referred to Committee on Local Government.
AB312,1,3
1
An Act
to amend
6.86 (1) (b) and 10.01 (2) (e) of the statutes;
relating to:
2
hours for voting by absentee ballot in person at the office of the municipal
3
clerk or an alternate site.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, a voter may vote by absentee ballot in person at the office of the municipal clerk or at an alternate site as near as practicable to the clerk’s office, as designated by the municipality. The period for voting absentee in person begins 14 days preceding the election and ends on the Sunday preceding the election, and the municipality must state the hours in the type E election notice, which, with one exception, is required to be published on the fourth Tuesday preceding each primary or election.
Under this bill, the office of the municipal clerk or alternate site must be open for at least 20 hours during the period for voting absentee in person, and the type E notice must state the specific office hours during which a voter may cast an in-person absentee ballot without prior appointment.
For further information see the local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
AB312,1
1
Section
1
.
6.86 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB312,3,5
2
6.86
(1)
(b) Except as provided in this section, if application is made by mail,
3
the application shall be received no later than 5 p.m. on the 5th day immediately
4
preceding the election. If application is made in person, the application shall be
5
made no earlier than 14 days preceding the election and no later than the Sunday
6
preceding the election. No application may be received on a legal holiday.
A
The
7
office of the municipal clerk or alternate site under s. 6.855 shall be open at least 20
8
hours during the period for accepting applications in person, and the
municipality
9
shall specify the hours in the notice under s. 10.01 (2) (e). The municipal clerk or an
10
election official shall witness the certificate for any in-person absentee ballot cast.
11
Except as provided in par. (c), if the elector is making written application for an
12
absentee ballot at the partisan primary, the general election, the presidential
13
preference primary, or a special election for national office, and the application
14
indicates that the elector is a military elector, as defined in s. 6.34 (1), the
15
application shall be received by the municipal clerk no later than 5 p.m. on election
16
day. If the application indicates that the reason for requesting an absentee ballot is
17
that the elector is a sequestered juror, the application shall be received no later than
18
5 p.m. on election day. If the application is received after 5 p.m. on the Friday
19
immediately preceding the election, the municipal clerk or the clerk’s agent shall
20
immediately take the ballot to the court in which the elector is serving as a juror
21
and deposit it with the judge. The judge shall recess court, as soon as convenient,
22
and give the elector the ballot. The judge shall then witness the voting procedure as
1
provided in s. 6.87 and shall deliver the ballot to the clerk or agent of the clerk who
2
shall deliver it to the polling place or, in municipalities where absentee ballots are
3
canvassed under s. 7.52, to the municipal clerk as required in s. 6.88. If application
4
is made under sub. (2) or (2m), the application may be received no later than 5 p.m.
5
on the Friday immediately preceding the election.
AB312,2
6
Section
2
.
10.01 (2) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB312,4,2
7
10.01
(2)
(e) Type E — The type E notice shall state the qualifications for
8
absentee voting, the procedures for obtaining an absentee ballot in the case of
9
registered and unregistered voters, the places and the deadlines for application and
10
return of application, including any alternate site under s. 6.855, and the
specific
11
office hours
, totalling not less than 20,
during which an elector
without prior
12
appointment
may cast an absentee ballot in the municipal clerk’s office or at an
13
alternate site under s. 6.855. The municipal clerk shall publish a type E notice on
14
the 4th Tuesday preceding each spring primary and election, on the 4th Tuesday
15
preceding each partisan primary and general election, on the 4th Tuesday
16
preceding the primary for each special national, state, county or municipal election
17
if any, on the 4th Tuesday preceding a special county or municipal referendum, and
18
on the 3rd Tuesday preceding each special national, state, county or municipal
19
election to fill an office which is not held concurrently with the spring or general
20
election. The clerk of each special purpose district which calls a special election
21
shall publish a type E notice on the 4th Tuesday preceding the primary for the
22
special election, if any, on the 4th Tuesday preceding a special referendum, and on
1
the 3rd Tuesday preceding a special election for an office which is not held
2
concurrently with the spring or general election except as authorized in s. 8.55 (3).
AB312,4,3
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