Skip to main content  Frequently Asked Questions - Absentee
Voting  Yes.  A Power of Attorney can request an absentee ballot
for an elector.  No person (not even a POA) may "vote" a ballot
for another elector.  If the elector requires assistance in
completing the ballot, the elector may designate another person
to assist the elector in marking the ballot.*  In the presence
of the elector, the ballot is marked according to the elector's
direction.  The assisting elector must sign their name on the
ballot under the section entitled "Signature of Assisting
Individual."  *The assisting elector cannot be the elector's
employer or an agent of that employer or an officer or agent of
a labor organization which represents the elector.  S.
6.82(2)(a), Wis. Stats.  3/12/2003  No.  Absentee voting
procedures allow an elector to complete a ballot before election
day.  However, absentee ballots are not considered cast until
election day.  If the voter is deceased at the time the absentee
ballot is being processed at the po