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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 SENATE BILL 523
October 9, 2025 - 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
. Referred to Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development.
SB523,1,2
1
An Act
to amend
7.52 (3) (a) of the statutes;
relating to:
poll list numbers
2
marked on certain absentee ballots.
Analysis by the 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.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SB523,1
3
Section
1
.
7.52 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB523,2,18
4
7.52
(3)
(a) The board of absentee ballot canvassers shall first open the carrier
5
envelope only, and, in such a manner that a member of the public, if he or she
6
desired, could hear, announce the name of the absent elector or the identification
7
serial number of the absent elector if the elector has a confidential listing under s.
1
6.47 (2). When the board of absentee ballot canvassers finds that the certification
2
has been properly executed and the applicant is a qualified elector of the ward or
3
election district, the board of absentee ballot canvassers shall enter an indication on
4
the poll list next to the applicant’s name indicating an absentee ballot is cast by the
5
elector. The board of absentee ballot canvassers shall then open the envelope
6
containing the ballot in a manner so as not to deface or destroy the certification
7
thereon. The board of absentee ballot canvassers shall take out the ballot without
8
unfolding it or permitting it to be unfolded or examined. Unless the ballot is cast
9
under s. 6.95, the board of absentee ballot canvassers shall verify that the ballot has
10
been endorsed by the issuing clerk. If the poll list indicates that proof of residence
11
is required and no proof of residence is enclosed or the name or address on the
12
document that is provided is not the same as the name and address shown on the
13
poll list, the board of absentee ballot canvassers shall proceed as provided under s.
14
6.97 (2).
The board of absentee ballot canvassers shall mark the poll list number of
15
each elector who casts an absentee ballot on the back of the elector’s ballot.
The
16
board of absentee ballot canvassers shall then deposit the ballot into the proper
17
ballot box and enter the absent elector’s name or poll list number after his or her
18
name on the poll list.
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