Wisconsin Administrative Code
Employment Relations Commission
ERC 10-19 - Municipal Employment Relations Act
Chapter ERC 11 - Elections to determine bargaining representative for municipal sector personnel
Section ERC 11.09 - Elections

(1) NATURE OF BALLOTING; BY WHOM CONDUCTED; EXTENSION OF TIME TO CONDUCT. All elections shall be conducted by secret ballot and under the supervision of the commission. The commission shall determine on a case by case basis whether balloting shall be conducted on-site or by mail. The time within which the commission has directed an election to be conducted may be extended by the commission.

(2) NOTICE OF ELECTION. The municipal employer shall post notices to personnel concerning the election and the commission's policy on absentee ballots, at times, locations and in a form specified by the commission.

(3) OBSERVERS. Any party may be represented by observers, selected in accordance with limitations, if any, established by the commission.

(4) CHALLENGE OF VOTERS. Any observer or commission agent conducting the election may challenge, for good cause, the eligibility of any person to vote in the election. The challenged ballots shall be impounded without being opened or counted.

(5) COUNT AND TALLY OF BALLOTS. Upon the conclusion of the election, the ballots shall be counted in the presence of the parties or their observers, and the commission agent conducting the election shall furnish a tally of ballots to the parties.

(6) INCONCLUSIVE ELECTIONS. When more than one proposed representative appears on the ballot and the results are inconclusive, the commission, on request of any party, may conduct a run-off election as provided in s. 111.70(4) (d) 4, Stats. A request for a runoff election shall be made within 30 days from the date of the certification of the results of the election.