NOTICE OF OPEN AND CLOSED MEETING
Regular Meeting
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
10:00 A.M.
This meeting will be held in person in Room 412 East of the Wisconsin State Capitol building, which is located at 2 East Main Street, Madison, WI 53702. Participants will also have the option to present public comment virtually, via telephone/Zoom.
WisconsinEye is likely to stream the meeting online, and members of the public and media are encouraged to view coverage at https://wiseye.org/ Please check WisconsinEye’s schedule at https://wiseye.org/schedule/ to determine whether it plans to stream the meeting.
Please visit https://elections.wi.gov/event/september-2024-quarterly-meeting to view materials for the meeting. Members of the public wishing to provide written comment to the Commissioners should email @email with “Message to Commissioners” in the subject line.
Members of the public who wish to address the Commission during public comment have the opportunity to do so virtually or in person. Please follow public comment instructions posted at https://elections.wi.gov/event/september-2024-quarterly-meeting. Once your request is received, you will receive instructions via email. Please submit requests to present public comment by 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 10, 2024. Please note that you must sign up ahead of time to be permitted to speak at the meeting. “Walk in” requests the day of the meeting without prior sign up will not be permitted.
OPEN AND CLOSED SESSION AGENDA
A. Call to Order
B. Administrator’s Report of Appropriate Meeting Notice
C. Public Comment
D. Written Comments
E. Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes
1. August 27, 2024
F. Presentation of “November General Election Status Update” Report … ……..
G. Review and Potential Action Relating to the 2025-2027 WEC Biennial
Budget ……
H. CRM Licensing Renewal
I. Discussion, Review, and Possible Action Pertaining to Clerk Communications
1) Best Practices for Polling Place Challenges and Election Day
“Pocket Guide”
2) Best Practices for Planning for Polling Place Emergencies Related
to New Statute 5.25(3)
3) Supplement to Election Day and Election Administration
Manuals pertaining to military and overseas voters
J. Consideration and Potential Action of Hart Voting Equipment
Certification
K. Presentation of Voter Registration Outreach Efforts following
Approved Exception to ERIC Eligible But Unregistered (EBU)
mailers
L. Administrative Rulemaking:
1) EL Chapter 4 Observer Rule – Consideration of Final Draft
Language for Permanent Rule
2) EL Chapter 4 Observer Rule Emergency Scope Statement
Discussion of Possible Approval
3) EL Chapter 19 Judicial Privacy Protection Rule – Review and
Approval of Public Hearing and Comment Period on Scope
Statement
4) EL Chapter 7 Voting Equipment Rule Order, Economic Impact
Analysis, and Draft Public Hearing Notice
5) EL Chapter 13 Election Inspector / Special Voting Deputy
Training Rule Order, Economic Impact Analysis, and Draft Public
Hearing Notice
M. Review and Potential Action Relating to Administrative Complaint
Forms
N. Voter Felon Audit
O. Staff Update
P. Closed Session*
1. Litigation update and Consideration of Potential Litigation
2. Advisory Opinion Consideration and Potential Action
3. Wis. Stat. § 5.05 Complaints
4. Voter Felon Audit
§ 19.85(1)(g) – The Commission may confer in closed session with legal counsel for the governmental body who is rendering oral or written advice concerning strategy to be adopted by the body with respect to litigation in which it is or is likely to become involved.
§ 19.85(1)(h) – Consideration of requests for confidential written advice from the elections commission under s. 5.05 (6a) or the ethics commission under s. 19.46 (2), or from any county or municipal ethics board under s. 19.59 (5).
§ 19.851 – The Commission’s deliberations concerning an investigation of any violation of the law under the jurisdiction of the Commission shall be in closed session.
§ 19.85(1)(f) – Considering financial, medical, social or personal histories or disciplinary data of specific persons, preliminary consideration of specific personnel problems or the investigation of charges against specific persons except where par. (b) applies which, if discussed in public, would be likely to have a substantial adverse effect upon the reputation of any person referred to in such histories or data, or involved in such problems or investigations.
Q. Adjourn
*The Elections Commission will convene in open session but may move to closed session under Wis. Stat. § 19.85(1)(f), (1)(g), (1)(h), and Wis. Stat. § 19.851 and then reconvene into open session prior to adjournment of this meeting. This notice is intended to inform the public that this meeting will convene in open session, may move to closed session, and then may reconvene in open session. Wis. Stat. § 19.85(2).