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The Wisconsin Elections Commission is a bipartisan regulatory agency of the state of Wisconsin established to administer and enforce election laws in the state. The Wisconsin Elections Commission was established by a 2015 act of the Wisconsin Legislature which also established the Wisconsin Ethics Commission to administer campaign finance, ethics, and lobbying laws.
Before the 2020 cycle, the Wisconsin Supreme Court had only handled redistricting one time, in 1964. Cases came to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 1982, 1992, and 2002, but the state court deferred in each of those cases, since federal law and federal court procedure had better tools for handling the map-making process. [3]
To call a constitutional convention, a majority of the state legislators must vote in favor of holding a new convention, and then the people of Wisconsin must approve the vote to call a convention at the next general election. If an amendment is introduced via the legislature, its passing requires a lengthy three-vote process:
The Wisconsin Election Commission ordered a partial recount of results in Dane and Milwaukee counties after receiving a $3 million payment from the Trump campaign.
In addition to voting for president, members of Congress and state lawmakers on the Nov. 5 ballot, Wisconsin voters will see the fifth and final statewide referendum question of the year.
Wisconsin's voter ID law has been subject to litigation. Republican lawmakers and former GOP Gov. Scott Walker enacted the state's first photo ID law for voting in 2011, but it wasn't until the ...
The proposed amendment also had its supporters, including the editorial board of the Wisconsin State Journal, [7] the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor, [8] and U.S. Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr. [9] The amendment passed, by a margin of 50.6 percent to 49.4 percent. [1]
(The Center Square) – Wisconsin voters approved a state constitution change requiring someone to be a citizen to vote in elections. The ballot measure had 75% approval with more than 95% of the ...