On October 29, the Wisconsin legislature sent AB 149 to Governor Tony Evers. The bill had passed in early October. It improves ballot access for qualified parties, by removing the requirement that qualified parties must choose their presidential elector candidates at a meeting attended by their legislative nominees. Frequently qualified parties don’t have any nominees for the legislature. For example, in 2024, the Green, Libertarian and Constitution Parties had no nominees for legislature.

The Democratic Party tried to keep the Green Party off the presidential ballot in 2024 using this law, but fortunately the State Supreme Court blocked that move. Nevertheless, it is good that the law has been eased by the legislature this year. The bill says the party chair can nominate presidential elector candidates.