Plan to Change Wisconsin’s Indefinitely Confined Voter Rules Faces Opposition
Republicans and Democrats each question the plan to change the state’s indefinitely confined voter rules at the Wisconsin Capitol.
Rep. Cindi Duchow, R-Town of Delafield, presented her plan to tighten the state’s indefinitely confined voter law by defining what indefinitely confined means, requiring people to apply for a separate indefinitely confined absentee ballot, clarifying a public health emergency does not allow people to claim indefinitely confined status and would ban people from voting indefinitely confined if they vote in person.
“Indefinitely confined means ‘I’m not leaving,’” Duchow told the Assembly Committee on Campaigns and Elections.
Wisconsin law allows people to vote absentee as indefinitely confined voters if they cannot or have trouble physically making it to the polls.
Duchow says the rules need to be tightened because the indefinitely confined law also allows people to vote without showing an ID.
“This is a problem that cuts to the heart of whether Wi