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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 1043
February 2, 2024 - Introduced by Representatives SNODGRASS, SHELTON, J.
ANDERSON, BARE, CONLEY, CONSIDINE, EMERSON, JACOBSON, JOERS, MADISON,
MOORE OMOKUNDE, NEUBAUER, OHNSTAD, ORTIZ-VELEZ, PALMERI, RATCLIFF,
SINICKI, STUBBS, SUBECK, ANDRACA, HAYWOOD and DRAKE, cosponsored by
Senators SMITH, SPREITZER, AGARD, CARPENTER, L. JOHNSON, ROYS, TAYLOR,
WIRCH and LARSON. Referred to Committee on Campaigns and Elections.
***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
AN ACT to amend 6.86 (1) (b) of the statutes; relating to: expanding the period
for voting by in person absentee ballot.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, an individual voting at an election by absentee ballot may
apply for an absentee ballot in person at the municipal clerk's office or at an alternate
absentee ballot site. An absentee ballot application made in person may be made no
earlier than 14 days preceding the election and no later than the Sunday preceding
the election.
Under this bill, an absentee ballot application made in person may be made no
later than the Sunday preceding the election.
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:
SECTION 1. 6.86 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
6.86 (1) (b) Except as provided in this section, if application is made by mail,
the application shall be received no later than 5 p.m. on the 5th day immediately
preceding the election. If application is made in person, the application shall be
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made no earlier than 14 days preceding the election and no later than the Sunday
preceding the election. No application may be received on a legal holiday. A
municipality shall specify the hours in the notice under s. 10.01 (2) (e). The
municipal clerk or an election official shall witness the certificate for any in-person
absentee ballot cast. Except as provided in par. (c), if the elector is making written
application for an absentee ballot at the partisan primary, the general election, the
presidential preference primary, or a special election for national office, and the
application indicates that the elector is a military elector, as defined in s. 6.34 (1), the
application shall be received by the municipal clerk no later than 5 p.m. on election
day. If the application indicates that the reason for requesting an absentee ballot is
that the elector is a sequestered juror, the application shall be received no later than
5 p.m. on election day. If the application is received after 5 p.m. on the Friday
immediately preceding the election, the municipal clerk or the clerk's agent shall
immediately take the ballot to the court in which the elector is serving as a juror and
deposit it with the judge. The judge shall recess court, as soon as convenient, and
give the elector the ballot. The judge shall then witness the voting procedure as
provided in s. 6.87 and shall deliver the ballot to the clerk or agent of the clerk who
shall deliver it to the polling place or, in municipalities where absentee ballots are
canvassed under s. 7.52, to the municipal clerk as required in s. 6.88. If application
is made under sub. (2) or (2m), the application may be received no later than 5 p.m.
on the Friday immediately preceding the election.
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