On June 24, the Wisconsin Assembly passed AB 149. It expands the methods for a qualified party to nominate presidential elector candidates. Current law says the party’s legislators, or its legislative candidates, choose the electors. The bill says a qualified party can also nominate presidential elector candidates in a state party meeting.

In 2024, the Wisconsin Green Party was a qualified party, but it didn’t have any legislative candidates. It nominated presidential elector candidates anyway, by party meeting. But then the Democratic Party challenged Jill Stein and said she should be removed from the ballot because her electors hadn’t been chosen properly. The State Supreme Court rejected the challenge, so she stayed on the ballot.

Assuming AB 149 passes, that should prevent that type of challenge from being filed in the future.