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Election Official Training Resources COVID-19
Clerks who are seeking to train chief inspectors and poll workers in the short period of time before the April 7, 2020 Spring Election and Presidential Preference Primary have a variety of topical online and updated training resources available to them. We suggest clerks train their election workers...
Public Health Guidance for Elections - COVID-19
We would like to express our gratitude to our local election partners for all of your incredible work leading your communities through these very trying times. WEC staff has worked with a public health official to develop guidance to help you prepare your polling places and poll workers for Election...
Absentee Ballot Processing - COVID-19
The Commission staff has received many questions from county and municipal clerks regarding absentee ballot processing on Election Day, results reporting and conducting the canvass during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Below are frequently asked questions related to those topics. 1. I have more...
Absentee Witness Signature Requirement Guidance COVID-19
This memo is also attached to this larger page of public health resources for clerks: https://elections.wi.gov/node/6787 Over the last week WEC staff and clerks have been contacted by many voters who are concerned about how they will fulfill the absentee ballot witness requirement when voting by...
Indefinitely Confined Voters
Wisconsin law allows a person who is “indefinitely confined because of age, physical illness or infirmity or is disabled for an indefinite period” to become a permanent absentee voter “by signing a statement to that effect.” This law has been on the books for more than 30 years. The WEC did not encourage anyone to declare themselves indefinitely confined or to claim that status to avoid the photo ID law
Consolidating Polling Places and Use of WisVote - COVID-19
This communication focuses on two issues related to the consolidation of polling places – the ability of municipal clerks to consolidate polling places as opposed to closing all polling places on Election Day, and the use of WisVote to check in voters at a consolidated polling location...