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SB1006,5,162 5.62 (2) (a) Except as provided in par. (b) and s. 5.64 (1) (e) 2., any political
3organization may be represented on a separate primary ballot or in one or more
4separate columns or rows on the partisan primary ballot as prescribed in sub. (1) (a)
5and in a separate column or row on the general election ballot in every ward and
6election district. To qualify for a separate ballot column or row under this paragraph,
7the political organization shall, not later than 5 p.m. on April 1 in the year of the
8partisan primary, file with the commission a petition requesting a separate ballot
9status
column or row on the partisan primary ballot. The petition shall be signed by
10at least 10,000 electors, including at least 1,000 electors residing in each of at least
113 separate congressional districts. The petition shall conform to the requirements
12of s. 8.40. No signature obtained before January 1 in the year of filing is valid. When
13the candidates of a political organization filing a valid petition fulfill the
14requirements prescribed by law, they shall appear on a separate ballot or in one or
15more separate columns or rows on the ballot for the period ending with the following
16general election.
SB1006,6,517 (b) Paragraph (a) applies to a party within any assembly district or county at
18any partisan primary election only if at least one candidate of the party for any
19national, state, or county office qualifies to have his or her name appear on the ballot
20under the name of that party within that assembly district or county. The county
21clerk or county board of election commissioners shall provide a combined separate
22ballot or
one or more separate columns or rows on the ballot that will permit an
23elector to cast a vote for a write-in candidate for the nomination of any such party
24for each national, state, and county office whenever that party qualifies to be
25represented on a separate primary ballot or in one or more separate columns or rows

1under par. (a) but does not qualify under this paragraph. The ballot shall include the
2name of each party qualifying for a separate ballot or one or more separate columns
3or rows on the ballot under each office, with the names of the candidates for each such
4party appearing in the same order in which the ballots columns or rows of the parties
5would appear under sub. (1) (a).
SB1006,7 6Section 7. 5.62 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB1006,6,157 5.62 (3) The commission shall designate the official primary ballot
8arrangement for statewide offices and district attorney within each prosecutorial
9district by using the same procedure as provided in s. 5.60 (1) (b). On each ballot and
10on each
separate column or row on the ballot, the candidates for office shall be listed
11together with the offices which that they seek in the following order whenever these
12offices appear on the partisan primary ballot: governor, lieutenant governor,
13attorney general, secretary of state, state treasurer, U.S. senator, U.S.
14representative in congress, state senator, representative to the assembly, district
15attorney, and the county offices.
SB1006,8 16Section 8. 5.655 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB1006,6,2417 5.655 (1) Whenever a separate ballot is required to be used, a municipality may
18use a single ballot to facilitate the use of voting machines or an electronic voting
19system or, if the municipality employs paper ballots, may use a consolidated paper
20ballot that is authorized under sub. (2). If a municipality uses a single ballot in lieu
21of separate ballots, the ballot shall include a separate column or row for any office,
22or referendum or party for which a separate ballot is required by law and the ballot
23shall be distributed only to electors who are eligible to vote for all of the offices and
24referenda appearing on the ballot.
SB1006,9 25Section 9. 5.81 (4) of the statutes is repealed.
SB1006,10
1Section 10. 5.84 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB1006,7,202 5.84 (1) Where any municipality employs an electronic voting system which
3that utilizes automatic tabulating equipment, either at the polling place or at a
4central counting location, the municipal clerk shall, on any day not more than 10
5days prior to the election day on which the equipment is to be utilized, have the
6equipment tested to ascertain that it will correctly count the votes cast for all offices
7and on all measures. Public notice of the time and place of the test shall be given by
8the clerk at least 48 hours prior to the test by publication of a class 1 notice under
9ch. 985 in one or more newspapers published within the municipality if a newspaper
10is published therein, otherwise in a newspaper of general circulation therein. The
11test shall be open to the public. The test shall be conducted by processing a
12preaudited group of ballots so marked as to record a predetermined number of valid
13votes for each candidate and on each referendum. The test shall include for each
14office one or more ballots which that have votes in excess of the number allowed by
15law and, for a partisan primary election, one or more ballots which have votes cast
16for candidates of more than one recognized political party,
in order to test the ability
17of the automatic tabulating equipment to reject such votes. If any error is detected,
18the municipal clerk shall ascertain the cause and correct the error. The clerk shall
19make an errorless count before the automatic tabulating equipment is approved by
20the clerk for use in the election.
SB1006,11 21Section 11. 5.91 (1) and (3) of the statutes are amended to read:
SB1006,7,2322 5.91 (1) It enables an elector to vote in secrecy and to select the party for which
23an elector will vote in secrecy at a partisan primary election
.
SB1006,8,3 24(3) Except in primary elections, it It enables an elector to vote for a ticket
25selected in part from the nominees of one party, and in part from the nominees of

1other parties, and in part from independent candidates and , except in the case of
2independent candidates at primary elections,
in part of from candidates whose
3names are written in by the elector.
SB1006,12 4Section 12. 5.91 (6) of the statutes is repealed.
SB1006,13 5Section 13. 6.80 (2) (am) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB1006,8,116 6.80 (2) (am) In partisan primaries, an elector may vote for a person as the
7candidate of the party of the elector's choice, if that person's name does not appear
8on the official ballot of that party, by writing in the name of the person in the space
9provided on the ballot or the ballot provided for that purpose, or where voting
10machines are used, in the irregular ballot device, designating the party for which the
11elector desires such person to be the nominee.
SB1006,14 12Section 14. 6.80 (2) (f) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB1006,8,2413 6.80 (2) (f) In the presidential preference primary and other partisan primary
14elections
at polling places where ballots are distributed to electors, unless the ballots
15are prepared under s. 5.655 or are utilized with an electronic voting system in which
16all candidates appear on the same ballot, after the elector prepares his or her ballot
17the elector shall detach the remaining ballots, fold the ballots to be discarded and fold
18the completed ballot unless the ballot is intended for counting with automatic
19tabulating equipment. The elector shall then either personally deposit the ballots
20to be discarded into the separate ballot box marked “blank ballot box," and deposit
21the completed ballot into the ballot box indicated by the inspectors, or give the ballots
22to an inspector who shall deposit the ballots directly into the appropriate ballot
23boxes. The inspectors shall keep the blank ballot box locked until the canvass is
24completed and shall dispose of the blank ballots as prescribed by the municipal clerk.
SB1006,15 25Section 15. 6.87 (4) (b) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB1006,9,25
16.87 (4) (b) 1. Except as otherwise provided in s. 6.875, an elector voting
2absentee, other than a military elector or an overseas elector, shall make and
3subscribe to the certification before one witness who is an adult U.S. citizen. A
4military elector or an overseas elector voting absentee, regardless of whether the
5elector qualifies as a resident of this state under s. 6.10, shall make and subscribe
6to the certification before one witness who is an adult but who need not be a U.S.
7citizen. The absent elector, in the presence of the witness, shall mark the ballot in
8a manner that will not disclose how the elector's vote is cast. The elector shall then,
9still in the presence of the witness, fold the ballots so each is separate and so that the
10elector conceals the markings thereon and deposit them in the proper envelope. If
11a consolidated ballot under s. 5.655 is used, the elector shall fold the ballot so that
12the elector conceals the markings thereon and deposit the ballot in the proper
13envelope. If proof of residence under s. 6.34 is required and the document enclosed
14by the elector under this subdivision does not constitute proof of residence under s.
156.34, the elector shall also enclose proof of residence under s. 6.34 in the envelope.
16Except as provided in s. 6.34 (2m), proof of residence is required if the elector is not
17a military elector or an overseas elector and the elector registered by mail or by
18electronic application and has not voted in an election in this state. If the elector
19requested a ballot by means of facsimile transmission or electronic mail under s. 6.86
20(1) (ac), the elector shall enclose in the envelope a copy of the request which bears an
21original signature of the elector. The elector may receive assistance under sub. (5).
22The return envelope shall then be sealed. The witness may not be a candidate. The
23envelope shall be mailed by the elector, or delivered in person, to the municipal clerk
24issuing the ballot or ballots. If the envelope is mailed from a location outside the
25United States, the elector shall affix sufficient postage unless the ballot qualifies for

1delivery free of postage under federal law. Failure to return an unused ballot in a
2primary does not invalidate the ballot on which the elector's votes are cast. Return
3of more than one marked ballot in a primary or return of a ballot prepared under s.
45.655 or a ballot used with an electronic voting system in a primary which is marked
5for candidates of more than one party invalidates all votes cast by the elector for
6candidates in the primary.
SB1006,16 7Section 16. 7.08 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB1006,10,128 7.08 (2) (b) The certified list of candidates for president and vice president who
9have been
nominated at a national convention by a party entitled to a separate
10column or row on the
partisan primary ballot or for whom electors have been
11nominated under s. 8.20 shall be sent as soon as possible after the closing date for
12filing nomination papers, but no later than the deadlines established in s. 10.06.
SB1006,17 13Section 17. 7.50 (1) (d) of the statutes is repealed.
SB1006,18 14Section 18. 7.50 (2) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB1006,10,1715 7.50 (2) (g) In partisan primaries, if an elector writes in the name of an
16individual on a ballot in a column or row other than the one on which that individual's
17name is shown as a candidate, the write-in vote may not be counted.
SB1006,19 18Section 19. 8.16 (1), (6) and (7) of the statutes are amended to read:
SB1006,10,2319 8.16 (1) Except as provided in sub. (2), the person who receives the greatest
20number of votes for an office on a party ballot at any partisan primary, regardless of
21whether the person's name appears on the ballot, shall be the party's candidate for
22the office, and the person's name shall so appear on the official ballot at the next
23election.
SB1006,11,2 24(6) The persons who receive the greatest number of votes respectively for the
25offices of governor and lieutenant governor on for any party ballot at a primary shall

1be the party's joint candidates for the offices, and their names shall so appear on the
2official ballot at the next election.
SB1006,11,9 3(7) Nominees chosen at a national convention and under s. 8.18 (2) by each
4party entitled to a separate column or row on a partisan primary ballot shall be the
5party's candidates for president, vice president, and presidential electors. The state
6or national chairperson of each such party shall certify the names of the party's
7nominees for president and vice president to the commission no later than 5 p.m. on
8the first Tuesday in September preceding a presidential election. Each name shall
9be in one of the formats authorized in s. 7.08 (2) (a).
SB1006,20 10Section 20. 8.17 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB1006,12,311 8.17 (1) (a) Political parties qualifying for a separate column or row on the
12partisan primary
ballot under s. 5.62 (1) (b) or (2) shall elect their party
13committeemen and committeewomen as provided under sub. (5) (b). The function of
14committeemen and committeewomen is to represent their neighborhoods in the
15structure of a political party. Committeemen and committeewomen shall act as
16liaison representatives between their parties and the residents of the election
17districts in which they serve. Activities of committeemen and committeewomen
18shall include, but not be limited to, identifying voters; assistance in voter
19registration drives; increasing voter participation in political parties; polling and
20other methods of passing information from residents to political parties and elected
21public officials; and dissemination of information from public officials to residents.
22For assistance in those and other activities of interest to a political party, each
23committeeman and committeewoman may appoint a captain to engage in these
24activities in each ward, if the election district served by the committeeman or
25committeewoman includes more than one ward. In an election district which that

1includes more than one ward, the committeeman or committeewoman shall
2coordinate the activities of the ward captains in promoting the interests of his or her
3party.
SB1006,21 4Section 21. 8.20 (9) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB1006,12,105 8.20 (9) Persons nominated by nomination papers without a recognized
6political party designation shall be placed on the official ballot at the general election
7and at any partisan election to the right or below the recognized political party
8candidates in their own column or row designated “Independent ".." If the candidate's
9name already appears under a recognized political party it may not be listed on the
10independent ballot, column or row.
SB1006,22 11Section 22. 8.50 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB1006,12,2312 8.50 (3) (b) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the provisions for the
13partisan primary under s. 8.15 are applicable to all partisan primaries held under
14this section, and the provisions for spring primaries under s. 8.10 are applicable to
15all nonpartisan primaries held under this section. In a special partisan primary or
16election, the order of the parties on the ballot shall be the same as provided under
17s. 5.62 (1) or 5.64 (1) (b). No primary is required for a nonpartisan election in which
18not more than 2 candidates for an office appear on the ballot or for a partisan election
19in which not more than one candidate for an office appears on in the ballot column
20or row
of each recognized political party on the ballot. In every special election except
21a special election for nonpartisan state office where no candidate is certified to
22appear on the ballot, a space for write-in votes shall be provided on the ballot,
23regardless of whether a special primary is held.
SB1006,23 24Section 23. 8.50 (3) (c) of the statutes is repealed.
SB1006,24 25Section 24. 9.10 (3) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:
SB1006,13,8
19.10 (3) (e) For any partisan office, a recall primary shall be held for each
2political party which that is entitled to a separate column or row on the partisan
3primary
ballot under s. 5.62 (1) (b) or (2) and from which more than one candidate
4competes for the party's nomination in the recall election. The primary ballot shall
5be prepared in accordance with s. 5.62, insofar as applicable. The person receiving
6the highest number of votes in the recall primary for each political party shall be that
7party's candidate in the recall election. Independent candidates shall be shown on
8the ballot for the recall election only.
SB1006,25 9Section 25. 10.02 (3) (b) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB1006,13,1410 10.02 (3) (b) 2. At a partisan primary, the elector shall select the party ballot
11candidate of his or her choice for each office and shall make a cross (X) next to or
12depress the lever or button next to the candidate's name for each office for whom the
13elector intends to vote, or shall insert or write in the name of the elector's choice for
14a candidate.
SB1006,26 15Section 26. 15.61 (1) (a) 6. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB1006,13,2116 15.61 (1) (a) 6. For each political party, other than the 2 major political parties,
17qualifying for a separate ballot column or row under s. 5.62 (1) (b) or (2) whose
18candidate for governor received at least 10 percent of the vote in the most recent
19gubernatorial election, one member, nominated by the governor from a list of 3
20individuals selected by the chief officer of that political party, and with the advice and
21consent of a majority of the members of the senate confirmed.
SB1006,27 22Section 27. 15.62 (1) (a) 6. of the statutes is amended to read:
SB1006,14,323 15.62 (1) (a) 6. For each political party, other than the 2 major political parties,
24qualifying for a separate ballot column or row under s. 5.62 (1) (b) or (2) whose
25candidate for governor received at least 10 percent of the vote in the most recent

1gubernatorial election, one member, nominated by the governor from a list of 3
2individuals selected by the chief officer of that political party, and with the advice and
3consent of a majority of the members of the senate confirmed.
SB1006,28 4Section 28. Initial applicability.
SB1006,14,65 (1) This act first applies with respect to voting at the 2022 partisan primary
6election.
SB1006,14,77 (End)
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