Let's Make Voting More Convenient

Proposal for legislation to expand early voting in Wisconsin, by allowing municipalities to have more than one location for in-person absentee voting

National information on early voting from the Early Voting Information Center at Reed College

Weekend or Holiday Voting

Here are ideas that have surfaced for improving access to the polls by making election day a holiday.

Senator Herb Kohl's 2005 bill to move election day to a weekend.  Introduced again in 2008 as S.2638.  Kohl's column in April 2008

Fair Elections Wisconsin letter to Senator Kohl suggesting a Wisconsin pilot of weekend voting.

Statewide school holiday letter, by Paul Malischke

Madison school district holiday for students, by Paul Malischke

Veterans day coincide with election day, by Carter-Ford report, 2001

Holiday for state workers on Election Day, by Rep. Josh Zepnick.  Non-support letter by League of Women Voters of Wisconsin

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