On May 7, the Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Campaigns & Elections passed A149. It expands the methods by which a qualified party may nominate for presidential elector. Existing law seems to say that a qualified party can only nominate presidential electors by a meeting of their state legislators, or their candidates for the legislature. The bill says that if a qualified party doesn’t have any elected state legislators, nor does it have any candidates for the legislature, the state chair can nominate candidates for presidential elector.

In 2024 the Wisconsin Green Party was qualified, but it had no candidates for the legislature, and the Democratic Party then filed a challenge to the party’s electoral slate. The State Supreme Court rejected the challenge. But if A149 becomes law, that type of challenge will cease to ever be a threat.