Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB1201 Compare Versions

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4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 1201
5	5	April 9, 2024 - Introduced by Representatives HAYWOOD, JOERS, RATCLIFF, EMERSON,
6	6	BARE, SNODGRASS, SINICKI, CONLEY, MOORE OMOKUNDE, ANDRACA, CONSIDINE,
7	7	HONG, OHNSTAD and NEUBAUER, cosponsored by Senators HESSELBEIN, L.
8	8	JOHNSON, LARSON, SPREITZER and ROYS. Referred to Committee on Campaigns
9	9	and Elections.
10	10	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
11	11	AN ACT to create 12.06 of the statutes; relating to: persons previously
12	12	nominated as presidential electors serving in certain public offices related to
13	13	elections.
14	14	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
15	15	Under current law, the political parties, as well as independent and write-in
16	16	candidates, nominate one presidential elector from each congressional district and
17	17	two electors from the state at large. At the election for president and vice president,
18	18	a vote for a slate of candidates for president and vice president is a vote for the
19	19	presidential electors pledged to that slate of candidates. The presidential electors
20	20	of the winning candidates for president and vice president convene after the election,
21	21	vote for the candidates to whom they are pledged, and transmit their votes to the
22	22	state's chief elections inspector—the administrator of the Wisconsin Elections
23	23	Commission—and to Congress.
24	24	This bill prohibits any person who was nominated as a presidential elector
25	25	pledged to losing candidates for president and vice president in a presidential
26	26	election and who convened with other presidential electors pledged to those losing
27	27	candidates who then cast votes for those losing candidates in the election and
28	28	transmitted or attempted to transmit their votes to the administrator of the
29	29	Elections Commission, or to Congress for purposes of presidential elections held
30	30	prior to the bill's effective date, from doing any of the following:
31	31	1. Serving in the office of presidential elector for Wisconsin.
32	32	2. Serving as a member of the Elections Commission or its staff.
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38	38	3. Serving as the administrator of the Elections Commission.
39	39	4. Serving as an election official. Under current law, any individual who is
40	40	charged with any duties relating to the conduct of an election is an election official.
41	41	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
42	42	enact as follows:
43	43	SECTION 1. 12.06 of the statutes is created to read:
44	44	12.06 Presidential electors for losing candidates. (1) No person who was
45	45	nominated as a presidential elector pledged to losing candidates for president and
46	46	vice president in a presidential election and who convened with other presidential
47	47	electors pledged to those losing candidates who then cast votes for those losing
48	48	candidates in the election and transmitted or attempted to transmit their votes to the
49	49	administrator of the commission as the chief election officer of the state for purposes
50	50	of 3 USC 11 may do any of the following:
51	51	(a) Serve in the office of presidential elector for this state.
52	52	(b) Serve as a member of the commission or its staff.
53	53	(c) Serve as the commission administrator.
54	54	(d) Serve as an election official.
55	55	(2) For presidential elections held prior to the effective date of this subsection
56	56	.... [LRB inserts date], the prohibition under sub. (1) applies to any person who was
57	57	nominated as a presidential elector pledged to losing candidates for president and
58	58	vice president in the presidential election and who convened with other presidential
59	59	electors pledged to those losing candidates who then cast votes for those losing
60	60	candidates in the election and transmitted or attempted to transmit their votes to
61	61	Congress.
62	62	SECTION 2. 0Initial applicability.
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87	87	(1) This act first applies to a person serving in an office specified in s. 12.06 (1)
88	88	(a) to (d) on the effective date of this subsection.
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