Wisconsin Assembly Turns Focus to Election Reforms
Few of the election reforms Wisconsin Republicans plan to pass will likely get the governor’s signature.
The State Assembly late Thursday approved nearly a dozen or so pieces of legislation that deal with how people vote and how elections are run in the state.
“There's no way that Wisconsin should experience what it did in 2020 in 2024,” Rep. Scott Krug, R-Nekoosa, said.
Krug, who is the chairman of the Assembly Committee on Campaigns and Elections said the Republican election reforms either look to close loopholes exposed during the 2020 election or prevent new loopholes from being exploited.
“It's been a great effort on everybody's part to try to make sure that election administration is changed permanently in the state of Wisconsin,” Krug said.
Krug said that includes Democratic support for a few ideas, including a plan that would send voters a text message when they request and return their absentee ballots and the plan to allow local election clerks to coun...