1997-1998 Wisconsin Legislature

Assembly Bill 959

Relating to: absentee voting qualifications; late voter registration; location of polling places; reports on impediments to voting; selection of party committeemen and committeewomen; recount fees; delivery of recount petitions to affected candidates; minutes of recount proceedings; certifications by circulators of nomination papers and election-related petitions; presidential ballots; maintenance of poll lists in an electronic format; an elector's residency for voting purposes after municipal annexation; qualification of political parties for separate positions on partisan primary and election ballots; the date of special elections; the composition of the county board of canvassers; eligibility of adult children of overseas electors to vote in this state; reporting of election returns by ward; authorizing a county board of election commissioners to bring civil actions for violations of the campaign financing law; administration of elections for joint municipal judges; depositing ballots in ballot boxes; the time for a hearing on recount appeals; write-in absentee ballots; consolidated paper ballots; filing of referenda questions; ballot design; filing of declarations of candidacy and recording of votes received by write-in candidates in certain elections; the method of selection of election officials; the procedure for challenging electors; terms of office of town officers; granting rule-making authority; and requiring a referendum. (FE) relating to: absentee voting qualifications; late voter registration; location of polling places; reports on impediments to voting; selection of party committeemen and committeewomen; recount fees; delivery of recount petitions to affected candidates; minutes of recount proceedings; certifications by circulators of nomination papers and election-related petitions; presidential ballots; maintenance of poll lists in an electronic format; an elector's residency for voting purposes after municipal annexation; qualification of political parties for separate positions on partisan primary and election ballots; the date of special elections; the composition of the county board of canvassers; eligibility of adult children of overseas electors to vote in this state; reporting of election returns by ward; authorizing a county board of election commissioners to bring civil actions for violations of the campaign financing law; administration of elections for joint municipal judges; depositing ballots in ballot boxes; the time for a hearing on recount appeals; write-in absentee ballots; consolidated paper ballots; filing of referenda questions; ballot design; filing of declarations of candidacy and recording of votes received by write-in candidates in certain elections; the method of selection of election officials; the procedure for challenging electors; terms of office of town officers; granting rule-making authority; and requiring a referendum. (FE)

Important Actions (newest first)

Date / House Action Journal
5/27/1998 Asm.Failed to pass pursuant to Assembly Joint Resolution 135 921
4/2/1998 Asm.Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1 786

History

Date / House Action Journal
3/26/1998 Asm.Introduced by JOINT LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.  
3/26/1998 Asm.Read first time and referred to committee on Elections and Constitutional Law 759
4/2/1998 Asm.Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1 786
4/21/1998 Asm.Revived pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 47 807
4/28/1998 Asm.LRB correction 817
5/27/1998 Asm.Failed to pass pursuant to Assembly Joint Resolution 135 921
 
Content subject to change after proofing by Chief Clerk staff.