MADISON, Wis (WSAU-Wheeler News) Wisconsin senators have decided to let voters register online, while no longer letting clerks deputize people to run group registration drives. The upper house voted 19-to-13 Tuesday night to send the Republican package of election law changes to the Assembly.
The U-S Public Interest Research Group joined several state watchdog groups in opposing the elimination of the registration deputies, saying it would severely limit voter access. But GOP Senate leader Scott Fitzgerald points out that groups can still hold drives where leaders can teach people to use electronic devices to register — but all Democrats on hand voted no, saying the deputies would make registration efforts easier.
The bill also allows federal veterans’ I-Ds for voting, and requires absentee ballots to be returned by the time the polls close on election nights.
