The presidential primaries in Wisconsin this week are virtually without drama. The referendums, though, are something else entirely.
The two elections-related referendum questions come from Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled state legislature, a joint resolution passed in two consecutive sessions that got kicked to the electorate because it seeks to amend the state’s constitution.
They center on external work in elections, both financially and in administration, and like many Republican-led efforts on elections, they hinge on 2020. The first referendum asks if a section of the state’s constitution should be created “to provide that private donations and grants may not be applied for, accepted, expended or used in connection with the conduct of any primary, election or referendum.”