City of Milwaukee - File #: 220459

• File #: 220459
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 7/12/2022
• In control: COMMON COUNCIL
• Final action: 9/20/2022
• Title: Substitute resolution expressing the City of Milwaukee’s support for and confidence in Wisconsin’s system of nonpartisan elections.
• Sponsors: ALD. ZAMARRIPA, ALD. PEREZ, ALD. DIMITRIJEVIC, ALD. RAINEY, ALD. BORKOWSKI, ALD. BAUMAN, ALD. MURPHY, ALD. STAMPER
• Indexes: ELECTIONS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
9/28/2022	1	MAYOR	SIGNED
9/20/2022	1	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED; Minutes note: All Common Council members were added as cosponsors in unanimous support.	Pass	11:0
9/12/2022	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION; Minutes note: Appearing: Lead Sponsor JoCasta Zamarripa Ald. Borkowski asked that ALL members of the Committee be made Co-sponsors. There were no objections. Public testimony: Karen Royster Dale Nook Rev. Gregory Lewis Coreen Rosen Lena Taylor	Pass	5:0
7/12/2022	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
220459
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference

Sponsor
ALD. ZAMARRIPA, PEREZ, DIMITRIJEVIC, RAINEY, BORKOWSKI, BAUMAN, MURPHY, AND STAMPER
Title
Substitute resolution expressing the City of Milwaukee’s support for and confidence in Wisconsin’s system of nonpartisan elections.
Analysis
This resolution expresses the City’s support for and confidence in Wisconsin’s system of nonpartisan administration of elections led by the Wisconsin Elections Commission and administered by local election officials.

The resolution also calls on state lawmakers to cease all attempts to undermine, disrupt or revoke the Wisconsin Elections Commission’s authority over Wisconsin elections, as well as the authority of county and municipal clerks.
Body
Whereas, The survival of the nation’s democracy depends on free and fair elections, where all eligible voters have the right to make their voices heard; and

Whereas, That right is already enshrined in s. 12.09, Wis. Stats., which provides that "no person may personally or through an agent make use of or threaten to make use of force, violence, or restraint in order to induce or compel any person to vote or refrain from voting at an election”; and

Whereas, The City of Milwaukee believes that the City has been well-served by the current system of nonpartisan election administration governed by the Wisconsin Elections Commission, managed by municipal clerks and the City’s Election Commission, and administered by its friends and neighbors who serve as election inspectors and poll workers; and

Whereas, Over the past few years, bad actors in society have attempted to bully, threaten, and undermine nonpartisan election administrators, making it harder for election officials to do their jobs, which reduces faith in the electoral process and hurts the health of democracy; and

Whereas, Looking to the 2022 Fall General Election and beyond, the City reaffirms its conviction that these nonpartisan election officials and the Wisconsi...