Wisconsin Presidential Electors Meeting Deadline Clarification Challenge

Lawsuit filed by the Republican Party of Wisconsin and its chairman, Brian Schimming, against Gov. Tony Evers (D), Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe and Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul (D) seeking clarification over what date the state’s electors must meet to cast their electoral votes for the 2024 election. In 2022, Congress passed the Electoral Count Reform Act (ECRA), which altered the date when each state’s presidential electors meet, cast and count their state’s electoral votes. The ECRA requires state presidential electors to meet “on the first Tuesday after the second Wednesday in December,” which would be Dec. 17, 2024 for the 2024 election. The party claims that Wisconsin law — which mandates that the state’s electors meet on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December, or Dec. 16, 2024 — conflicts with the ECRA. The Wisconsin GOP asks the court to order Wisconsin to follow federal law by meeting on Dec. 17, 2024. 

RESULT: On Dec. 12, the court dismissed the case after the state agreed that its electors should meet on the federally required date, Dec. 17.

Last updated: December 12, 2024 3:16 pm EST