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Type | Title | Description | Result | Yes Votes | No Votes |
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LRCA | Citizenship Voting Requirement Amendment | Prohibit the state and local governments from allowing noncitizens to vote |
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State Constitution
Article III, Section 1 of the Wisconsin Constitution states:
“Only a United States citizen age 18 or older who is a resident of an election district in this state is a qualified elector of that district who may vote in an election for national, state, or local office or at a statewide or local referendum.”
Official Ballot Language
“Eligibility to vote. Shall section 1 of article III of the constitution, which deals with suffrage, be amended to provide that only a United States citizen age 18 or older who resides in an election district may vote in an election for national, state, or local office or at a statewide or local referendum?”
Legislative Watch
SJR71: To renumber and amend section 1 of article III; and to create section 1 (1) of article III of the constitution; Relating to: eligibility to vote in Wisconsin (second consideration).
Chamber | Vote | Date | Yea | Nay | NV | Abs | Total | Result | Source | View |
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House | Assembly: Read a third time and concurred in | 2023-11-09 | 60 | 34 | 5 | 0 | 99 | Passed | Link | View |
Senate | Senate: Read a third time and adopted | 2023-11-07 | 21 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 33 | Passed | Link | View |
SJR32: Amend the constitution from Every United States citizens to Only United States citizens
January 25, 2022 – Assembly received from the Senate
January 25, 2022 – Adopted in the Senate