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How Public Libraries Can Become Voter Registration Sites
This article originally appeared January 8, 2004 in Channel Weekly, the e-mail news of the Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning.
Individuals can register to vote at a number of Wisconsin public libraries including those in Appleton, Cedarburg, Greenfield, Kenosha, Madison, Middleton, Muskego, New Berlin, Sun Prairie, Verona, and probably many others. To become qualified to register voters, public library staff must be trained by municipal officials. Contact your municipal clerk if your library is interested in registering voters.
Libraries that do not wish to offer voter registration service can still make the voter registration application forms available in paper form and/or electronically (through the library's web page). Instructions indicating how to register to vote in Wisconsin are on the State Election Board's web site at http://elections.state.wi.us/sebpage32.html.
A downloadable registration form is available from that web page, or is directly available at http://elections.state.wi.us/pdf/EB-131%20Voter%20Registration%20App.pdf.
Channel Weekly,
Volume 6, No. 15 January 8, 2004