Local election managers in Wisconsin cannot add anything to absentee ballots without contacting voters first.
The legislature’s Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules yesterday killed a proposal from the state’s Elections Commission that would have allowed local clerks to make changes on their own. JCRAR chief Senator Steve Nass said Wisconsin law is clear about who can change ballot information and how, and said the Elections Commission plan was outside the law. Democrats at the Capitol say they want to see a voter’s intent respected. Nass says Wisconsin lawmakers, not the Elections Commission, make the laws in the state.
