WISCONSIN – Last week, the Republican Party of Wisconsin released a series of resolutions on election integrity issues, but voters in Wisconsin have already indicated that they reject partisan involvement in election systems and support commonsense legislation already under discussion.
Per the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, resolutions around election law that were put forth included “those calling for banning central counts to tabulate absentee votes during elections and seeking to require areas using central counts to finish calculating all their votes no later than two hours after polls close.”
These resolutions are unfounded in data supported by the majority of the state’s voters. Polling conducted just a few weeks ago after the Wisconsin spring elections found Fifty-four percent (54%) of voters are “very confident” in the way the Wisconsin Supreme Court elections were conducted, a seven-point increase compared to those who said the same about the ‘24 presidential election (47%). The number one issue people want to see fixed is the pre-processing of ballots on Monday to speed up the process of vote counting, with 76 percent of voters supporting this idea, and 40 percent strongly supporting the change.
To see the full poll, click HERE.
The board of the Democracy Defense Project – Wisconsin, a bipartisan body, released the following statement in response to the politically charged resolutions:
“When political parties involved themselves in the administration of our elections, the people as a whole will never be satisfied. Rather than release incendiary resolutions to capitalize on the fears of a subset of the public, its past time Madison truly addresses the root of our electoral mistrust. We at the Democracy Defense Project have laid out what those policies fixes could look like, and elected officials should take note – when 70% of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents agree, you know you’re onto good policy.”
DDP-WI Board Members Mandela Barnes, JB Van Hollen, Scott Klug and Mike Tate
DDP will continue to support a two-pronged approach focused on educating voters on the process to restore credibility and focusing on reforms like pre-processing to instill more confidence in the process will go a long way to see meaningful change.
About the Poll
The poll was conducted among 600 registered likely voters statewide, April 7-10, 2025. The pollsters were the Tarrance Group and Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz and Associates.
See the full poll as well as highlights here.
About the Democracy Defense Project – Wisconsin
The Democracy Defense Project (DDP) is a new organization led by a bipartisan group of former elected officials and leaders across Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin who will work to defend the transparency, safety, security and validity of our nation’s electoral system. We will publicly defend those who have sworn to uphold the rule of law and to be an active voice against any individual or organization that would look to undermine lawful election processes and outcomes. The Democracy Defense Project – Wisconsin board includes former Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes, former Attorney General JB Van Hollen, former U.S. Representative Scott Klug and former Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Mike Tate.
