Milwaukee County Election Commission

July 15, 2023, is the deadline for a voter to respond with a Request for Continuation of Registration for the 2023 four-year voter record maintenance. Requests for continuation made after July 15, 2023, cannot be accepted and the voter should be informed that they will need to re-register. Clerks...

1. PURPOSE. Many Wisconsin clerks recently received public records requests seeking completed absentee ballot applications and copies of each applicant’s photo identification for each election year from 2018 to the present. The WEC cannot represent your jurisdiction or tell you how to respond to...

1. Background. In 2021 the WEC began a quarterly Movers review and mailing process in which postcards are mailed to Wisconsin residents who were identified as potentially moving. As part of Wisconsin’s membership in the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), the WEC is required to...

Wisconsin clerk colleagues, I write to you today after a challenging three years that have tested each one of us as individuals and as a community whose mission is to deliver fair and accurate elections to Wisconsinites. I am proud to say that despite the challenges, we have succeeded in our shared...

SUMMARY. On March 3, 2023, the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) approved the allocation of federal funds for an absentee ballot envelope subgrant program. This subgrant is provided to partially offset the costs jurisdictions incur purchasing the redesigned absentee ballot envelopes (EL-120 and...

The purpose of this memo is to alert clerks of some important dates and required actions for the 2023 four-year voter record maintenance. Clerks will use WisVote to process returned postcards and update voter records. Before processing any returned postcards, please view the pre-recorded...

SUMMARY. On March 3, 2023, the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) approved the allocation of funds for an accessible voting equipment subgrant program. BACKGROUND. Under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 (Public Law 117-328), the WEC was awarded additional federal funds to “improve the...

Training Report We have posted the Municipal Clerk Training Report in advance of the December 31, 2023 deadline so that clerks can see the number of training hours they have reported so far this term, as of December 1, 2023. The report will be updated monthly until later this year, when it will be...

1. Summary. On April 28, the Commission unanimously approved several aspects of the absentee envelope redesign project: The EL-120 absentee mailer envelope (carrying the ballot to the voter) and El-122 absentee application and certificate envelope (carrying the ballot back to the clerk) will...

1. SUMMARY. On September 21, 2022, the Wisconsin Elections Commission approved the renewal of the Election Security .gov Email Domain Subgrant for municipalities, which awards up to $600 per jurisdiction for transition to a wi.gov or .gov email domain. Under the federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA)...