Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 5 - Elections — general provisions; ballots and voting systems.
5.92 - Bond may be required.

5.92 Bond may be required. Before entering into a contract for the purchase or lease of an electronic voting system or any ballots, voting devices, automatic tabulating equipment or related equipment or materials to be used in connection with a system, any municipality may require the vendor or lessor to provide a performance bond with a licensed surety company as surety, guaranteeing the supply of additional equipment, parts or materials, provision of adequate computer programming, preventive maintenance or emergency repair services, training of election officials and other municipal employees or provision of public educational materials for a specified period, or guaranteeing the security of the computer programs or other equipment or materials to be utilized with the system to prevent election fraud, or such other guarantees as the municipality determines to be appropriate.
History: 1979 c. 311.

Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations

Chapter 5 - Elections — general provisions; ballots and voting systems.

5.01 - Scope.

5.02 - Definitions.

5.025 - Elections commission; definition.

5.05 - Elections commission; powers and duties.

5.055 - Election assistance commission standards board.

5.056 - Matching program with secretary of transportation.

5.06 - Compliance review; appeal.

5.061 - Compliance with federal Help America Vote Act.

5.07 - Action to compel compliance.

5.08 - Petition for enforcement.

5.081 - Petition for enforcement of voting rights.

5.10 - Presidential electors.

5.15 - Division of municipalities into wards.

5.18 - Enforcement of division requirement.

5.25 - Polling places.

5.35 - Polling place requirements.

5.36 - Notice of voting by individuals with disabilities.

5.37 - Voting machine requirements.

5.40 - Use of voting machines or systems.

5.51 - General provisions.

5.52 - Multi-candidate elections.

5.53 - Voting machine ballots.

5.54 - Notice to electors.

5.55 - Information.

5.56 - Multiple columns and rows.

5.58 - Spring primary ballots.

5.60 - Spring election ballots.

5.62 - Partisan primary ballots.

5.64 - General election ballots.

5.65 - Special referendum ballots.

5.655 - Consolidated ballots.

5.66 - Number of ballots.

5.68 - Cost of elections.

5.72 - Correcting ballot errors.

5.76 - Adoption, experimentation or discontinuance of systems.

5.77 - Applicable procedures.

5.78 - Voting booths.

5.79 - Instruction of electors.

5.80 - Demonstrator electronic voting system.

5.81 - Ballot information; arrangement; absentee ballots.

5.82 - Write-in ballots.

5.83 - Preparation for use of voting devices; comparison of ballots.

5.84 - Testing of equipment; requirements for programs and ballots.

5.85 - Receiving, counting, tallying and return of ballots.

5.86 - Proceedings at central counting locations.

5.87 - Tabulating votes.

5.89 - Official return.

5.90 - Recounts.

5.905 - Software components.

5.91 - Requisites for approval of ballots, devices and equipment.

5.92 - Bond may be required.

5.93 - Administration.

5.94 - Sample ballots; publication.

5.95 - Elector information.