Election Information

Polling Places

District 1 - Wards 1, 2, 3 & 4
South Milwaukee Public Library
1907 10th Avenue

District 2 - Wards 5, 6, 7 & 8
Lakeview School
711 Marion Avenue

District 3 - Wards 9, 10, 11 & 12
South Milwaukee Administration Building (City Hall)
2424 15th Avenue

District 4 - Wards 13, 14, 15 & 16
Rawson School
1410 Rawson Avenue

For more information see the city’s map
www.ci.south-milwaukee.wi.us/votingmap.pdf

Voters can register at the City Clerk’s office prior to the election date or at the polling place on election day. Voters should bring their Wisconsin driver’s license or state ID card when registering. If the information on your license does not list your current address, additional documentation with the current address will be needed to establish residency. A voter must have lived at their residence for at least 28 consecutive days prior to registering. Remember, you must change your voter registration if you are new to the city, have changed residences within the city or if you had a legal name change. Please contact the City Clerk’s office for your proper polling place, which is dictated by address.

The spring 2012 election dates are February 21 for the Spring Primary and April 3 for the Spring Election and Presidential Preference Vote. The Spring Election in the City of South Milwaukee will include two (2) School Board seats, Mayor, City Clerk, City Treasurer, City Attorney and Municipal Judge in all districts. There will be a Special Election for Alderperson in the First District only.

Anyone planning on being out of town or unable to make it to the polling place on election day can cast an absentee ballot in the Clerk's office, or request a ballot in writing. Requests for ballots should be mailed to the City Clerk, 2424 15th Avenue, South Milwaukee, WI, 53172. The request must list the voters resident address, where the ballot should be mailed if different, the election for which they are requesting the ballot, and must be signed by the voter. Under the new Voter Law, a copy of picture ID must accompany the ballot request in order to receive a ballot. The last day to vote in person absentee in the Clerk's office is Friday, February 17 or Friday, March 30, 2012.

Remember, under the new law, picture ID must be presented at the polling place and poll book must be signed by the voter to receive a ballot.

Area residents who need to register to vote in Wisconsin should remember that their Wisconsin Driver’s License number is an important key to voter registration.

Federal law now requires voters who have a driver’s license to use the number from that license for the registration process. In the new Statewide Voter Registration System (SVRS), the driver’s license number used on the voter registration form will be cross-checked with Wisconsin Department of Transportation (DOT) records to make sure that the person listed with that number is the same person who registered to vote.

Voters who register or re-register in their clerk’s office, by mail, or at the polling place on Election Day will be asked to list their driver’s license number on the registration form. Local election officials do not have to see the driver’s license or check it, but will require any voter with a Wisconsin license to use the license number to register. (However, to use a driver’s license to prove a voter’s residence, a poll worker must see the license.)

For voters who do not have a driver’s license, the number from a state DOT-issued ID card may be used. Only if the voter has neither a Wisconsin DL or state ID can the last four digits of their Social Security number be used to fulfill the federal requirement. People who use false identification numbers to register to vote can be prosecuted for voter fraud.

In rare cases, Wisconsinites do not have a driver’s license, state ID or a Social Security number. However, they may still register to vote. Those voters must check a box on the voter registration form that attests that they have none of the three and turn in the form, and will need to provide additional documents to prove proof of residency.

ELECTIONS
FEBRUARY 21, 2012 - SPRING PRIMARY
APRIL 3, 2012 - SPRING ELECTION & PRESIDENTIAL PREFERENCE
AUGUST 14, 2012 - FALL PRIMARY
NOVEMBER 6, 2012 - PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

Election Results - April 5, 2011
Election Results - February 15, 2011