Assembly committee Republicans halt proposal for election observers
State lawmakers are trying to establish a standardized set of rules for what election observers are — and aren’t — allowed to do at Wisconsin polling places.
Legislators on both sides of the aisle are making progress on what those rules could look like, but implementing them has been another challenge.
This week, the Republican-controlled state Assembly Committee on Campaigns and Elections voted along party lines against recommending a new set of standards move forward through the state rulemaking process.
The package is centered around a rule proposal from the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission, which would specify the distance observers could be from tables where voters show identification and allow them to review non-confidential voter information.
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