[HISTORY: Adopted by the Village Board of the Village of Iron Ridge as Title 2, Ch. 1, of the 1986 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The Village of Iron Ridge is a body corporate and politic with the powers of a municipality at common law and governed by the provisions of Chs. 61 and 66, Wis. Stats., laws amending those chapters, other acts of the legislature and the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin.
[Amended by Ord. No. 8-2009]
The voting polls in the Village of Iron Ridge, Dodge County, Wisconsin, shall be opened from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. for all elections.
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Number. The election officials shall consist of five inspectors. Members shall be appointed as provided in § 7.30, Wis. Stats., as amended.
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Work hours. Shifts may be split as determined by the Municipal Clerk.
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Appointments. The Village President shall appoint election officials with confirmation by the Village Board as pursuant to Chs. 7.30, 7.31 and 7.32, Wis. Stats. Such election officials shall have all of the powers and perform all of the duties prescribed for such officers by the statutes.
[Amended by Ord. No. 2-2010]
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There shall be a Village caucus to nominate candidates for elective offices. The Village Board shall, between December 1 and January 1, decide the date of the caucus. The date of the caucus may be established between January 2 and January 21. When possible, preference should be given to having the caucus on January 21.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III)]
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Whenever a caucus is held, the Village Clerk shall give notice of the date, time and place for the caucus by posting in his office and by one publication in a newspaper under Ch. 985, Wis. Stats., at least five days before the date of the caucus.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III)]
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The Village President together with the Village Clerk shall serve as caucus officials. If the President is a candidate, he shall call for the election of officials to conduct the caucus. The officials shall be elected by acclamation or ballot as the meeting directs. The electors attending the meeting shall select two tellers to canvass the vote for each office at the caucus.
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Names of candidates shall be placed in nomination either by motion made and seconded from the floor or by writing the candidate's name on a slip of paper distributed by the tellers to those electors attending the caucus. Only persons placed in nomination shall be voted on.
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Nominations shall be made for one office at a time. Candidates for the office of Village Trustee shall be considered one office for purposes of nomination and election.
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Before balloting the caucus Chairman shall announce the names of all candidates placed on nomination.
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The voting for each office shall be by ballot, but the caucus Chairman may dispense with voting by ballot when only one or two persons are nominated for the same office.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III)]
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Two candidates receiving the highest number of votes cast for each office shall be nominated and certified by the caucus Chairman and tellers to the Village Clerk.
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Village Trustees, excluding the office of Village President, shall be nominated together and at large. Candidates, equal to twice the number of positions to be filled, who receive the most votes, shall be nominated and certified.
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The Village Clerk shall notify in writing each candidate whose name is certified as a nominee under Subsection H of his or her nomination.
[Amended by Ord. No. 4-1987; at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. III)]
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Upon receipt of the notice, each candidate shall file a declaration of candidacy in the manner prescribed by § 8.21, Wis. Stats., with the Municipal Clerk making the notification no later than 5:00 p.m. on the fifth day after the notification is mailed or personally delivered to the candidate by the Municipal Clerk, except as authorized in this subsection. If an incumbent whose name is certified as a nominee fails to file a declaration of candidacy within the time prescribed by this subsection, each certified candidate for the office held by the incumbent, other than the incumbent, may file a declaration of candidacy no later than 72 hours after the latest time prescribed in this subsection. If the candidate has not filed a registration statement under § 11.0202(1)(a), Wis. Stats., at the time of the notification, the candidate shall file the statement with the declaration.
(2) 
If, under Subsection J(1), an incumbent files written notification that the incumbent is not a candidate for reelection to his or her office or fails to file a declaration of candidacy within the time prescribed by this subsection, the officer or body with whom the declaration of candidacy is required to be filed shall promptly provide public notice of that fact on the officer's or body's internet site or, if the officer or body does not maintain an internet site, by posting notices in at least three different locations within the jurisdiction that the officer or body serves.