County Candidate Registration & Filings

2024 SPRING ELECTION AND PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE PRIMARY ELECTION

Filing deadline for Non-Candidacy: No later than 5:00 p.m., Friday, December 22, 2023

EL-163 Declaration of Noncandidacy

Filing deadline for all other candidate papers: No later than 5:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 2, 2024

Any filings received after the deadline will not gain ballot access.

Determining Sufficiency of Nomination Papers Wis. Admin. Code § EL 2.05

After candidates submit their nomination papers to the correct filing officer, they will be reviewed for sufficiency. The filing officer will review all headers, signatures, and circulator information to determine a final count of sufficient signatures. In their review, the filing officer will examine addresses and municipalities to ensure that they are in district. Filing officers also confirm that all dates written by signers are both within the circulation period and prior to or on the date which the circulator signed the certification. Signatures that are deemed insufficient are struck and deducted from the total number of signatures submitted. Any insufficiencies, such as incorrectly dated signatures or inaccurate circulator information can be corrected with a correcting affidavit for up to 3 days after the filing deadline. Wis. Admin. Code § EL 2.05(4).

Please note that the periods for filing correcting affidavits and challenges run at the same time.  WEC encourages both candidates and potential challengers to review the Common Nomination Paper Challenges Manual located at this link:  Common%20Nomination%20Paper%20Challenges_Final%20%281_2018%29.pdf (wi.gov)