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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 38
February 13, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives STEFFEN, KNODL, ARMSTRONG,
C. ANDERSON, BARE, EDMING, MAGNAFICI, MOSES, MURPHY, MURSAU, O'CONNOR,
SWEARINGEN, TUSLER and J ACOBSON, cosponsored by Senators
CABRAL-GUEVARA, ROYS, SPREITZER and TOMCZYK. Referred to Committee on
Campaigns and Elections.
***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
AN ACT to amend 6.86 (1) (ac) of the statutes; relating to: absentee ballot
request and return confirmation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Current law allows a voter to receive an absentee ballot by making a written
application by means of facsimile transmission or electronic mail. Under this bill,
if a voter makes a written application by electronic mail and submits his or her
mobile telephone number with the application, after the voter completes and submits
the application, the electronic application system maintained by the Elections
Commission must automatically notify the voter by text message that his or her
application has been received. In addition, under the bill, after the voter completes
and returns his or her ballot, the system must automatically notify the voter by text
message that his or her ballot has been received. Finally, the bill provides that all
mobile telephone numbers submitted for the purposes provided under the bill are
confidential.
For further information see the state and 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) (ac) of the statutes is amended to read:
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SECTION 1 ASSEMBLY BILL 38
6.86 (1) (ac) Any elector qualifying under par. (a) may make written application
to the municipal clerk for an official ballot by means of facsimile transmission or
electronic mail. Any application under this paragraph need not contain a copy of the
applicant's original signature. An elector requesting a ballot under this paragraph
shall return with the voted ballot a copy of the request bearing an original signature
of the elector as provided in s. 6.87 (4). Except as authorized in ss. 6.87 (4) (b) 2. to
5. and 6.875 (6), and notwithstanding s. 343.43 (1) (f), the elector shall transmit a
copy of his or her proof of identification in the manner provided in s. 6.87 (1) unless
the elector is a military elector or an overseas elector or the elector has a confidential
listing under s. 6.47 (2). If the elector makes a written application by electronic mail
under this paragraph and submits his or her mobile telephone number with the
application, after the elector completes and submits the application, the electronic
application system maintained by the commission shall automatically notify the
elector by text message that his or her application has been received. In addition,
after the elector completes and returns his or ballot, the electronic application
system maintained by the commission shall automatically notify the elector by text
message that his or her ballot has been received. The elector may choose to receive
such notifications for all subsequent elections for which the elector makes a written
application by electronic mail for an absentee ballot. Mobile telephone numbers
submitted under this paragraph are confidential, notwithstanding subch. II of ch. 19.
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