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Important Reminders for Voters about the February 18 Spring Primary

MADISON, WI – Voters across Wisconsin will have a Spring Primary for Supreme Court on Tuesday, February 18, while voters in the 7th Congressional District in Northern Wisconsin will also have a congressional primary, according to the Wisconsin Elections Commission. In addition, there will be 96...

WEC Releases Movers Mailing List

MADISON, WI – The Wisconsin Elections Commission today is making public the “movers mailing list” containing names and addresses of more than 232,000 voters who may have moved in the past year. The Commission has directed staff to provide the list to anyone who has previously made a public records...

Three Decisions Issued in Milwaukee City and County Ballot Cases

MADISON, WI – The Wisconsin Elections Commission today announced three decisions affecting candidates for the 2020 Spring Primary and Spring Election. The decisions approved by WEC Chair Dean Knudson state that a Milwaukee mayoral candidate and two Milwaukee County executive candidates will not be...

Republican and Democratic Candidates Selected for Presidential Primary

MADISON, WI –Wisconsin’s Presidential Preference Selection Committee today selected 14 Democrats and one Republican who will appear as candidates on the ballot for the Presidential Preference Vote on April 7, 2020. The committee, which has convened every four years since 1968, met in the State...

Statement regarding today's WEC meeting about the voter list case

At a special meeting today, the Wisconsin Elections Commission did not pass any motion directing staff to take action on the movers mailing list. This means the Commission will await further direction from the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Wisconsin. When those courts provide direction...

Updated movers mailing information

Due to continuing media and public interest in the status of the WEC's mailing to voters who may have moved , we are posting two spreadsheets. Please visit the link for background information about the mailing itself. The first spreadsheet ( Updated List Movers Mailings by Municipality.xlsx ) is an...

Presidential Preference Selection Committee to Meet, Choose Candidates for Wisconsin’s April Presidential Vote

MADISON, WI – A bipartisan nominating committee will decide in January which presidential candidates to put on the ballot for Wisconsin’s Presidential Preference Vote on April 7. At 11 a.m. on Tuesday, January 7, 2020, the committee comprised of Democratic and Republican Party representatives will...

Statement regarding decision in voter list case

The Wisconsin Elections Commission issued the following statement in response to Judge Malloy's ruling today in Timothy Zignego et al vs. Wisconsin Election Commission et al : "We will be analyzing the judge’s oral decision and consulting with the six members of the Wisconsin Elections Commission on...

Publications Open for Public Comment

The Wisconsin Elections Commission occasionally publishes manuals and other guidance documents that interpret state law. In accordance with 2017 Wisconsin Act 369, those guidance documents will generally be open for public comments for 21 days following publication on this website.

WEC Announces MyVote Wisconsin Outage

MADISON, WI – The MyVote Wisconsin website will be offline for a few days for maintenance and upgrades starting Thursday, November 14. “We’re improving the MyVote website,” explained Meagan Wolfe, Wisconsin’s chief elections official. “We’ll be back online in a few days, ready for a busy 2020...