NOTICE OF REFERENDUM ELECTION 
APRIL 1, 2025 
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that at an election to be held in the several towns, villages, 
wards, and election districts of the State of Wisconsin, on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, the following 
question will be submitted to a vote of the people pursuant to law: 
2025 SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 2 
To create section 1m of article III of the constitution; relating to: requiring photographic 
identification to vote in any election (second consideration).  
Whereas, the 2023 legislature in regular session considered a proposed amendment to the 
constitution in 2023 Senate Joint Resolution 73, which became 2023 Enrolled Joint Resolution 9, 
and agreed to it by a majority of the members elected to each of the two houses, which proposed 
amendment reads as follows:  
SECTION 1. Section 1m of article III of the constitution is created to read:  
[Article III] Section 1m (1)  No qualified elector may cast a ballot in any election unless the elector 
presents valid photographic identification that verifies the elector’s identity and that is issued by this state, 
the federal government, a federally recognized American Indian tribe or band in this state, or a college or 
university in this state.  The legislature shall by law establish acceptable forms of photographic 
identification, and the legislature may by law establish exceptions to the requirement under this subsection. 
(2)  A qualified elector who is unable to present valid photographic identification on election day 
shall be permitted to cast a provisional ballot.  A provisional ballot may not be counted unless the elector 
presents valid photographic identification at a later time and place as provided by the legislature by law. 
SECTION 2.  Numbering of new provision.  If another constitutional amendment ratified by the 
people creates the number of any provision created in this joint resolution, the chief of the legislative 
reference bureau shall determine the sequencing and the numbering of the provisions whose numbers 
conflict. 
Now, therefore, be it resolved by the senate, the assembly concurring, That the foregoing proposed 
amendment to the constitution is agreed to by the 2025 legislature; and, be it further  
Resolved, That the foregoing proposed amendment to the constitution be submitted to a vote of the 
people at the election to be held on the first Tuesday of April 2025; and, be it further  
Resolved, That the questions concerning ratification of the foregoing proposed amendment to the 
constitution be stated on the ballot as follows: 
QUESTION 1: “Photographic identification for voting. Shall section 1m of article III of the constitution be 
created to require that voters present valid photographic identification verifying their identity in order to vote 
in any election, subject to exceptions which may be established by law?” 
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT AS TO THE QUESTION 
The Wisconsin Constitution provides that “[o]nly a United States citizen age 18 or older 
who is a resident of an election district in this state is a qualified elector of that district who may 
vote in an election for national, state, or local office or at a statewide or local referendum.” Wis. 
Const. art. III, § 2.  The referendum question would add a new provision to Wis. Const. art. III to 
require that voters present valid photographic identification to exercise their rights as electors.  
The proposed constitutional text would provide that acceptable photographic identification 
must be “issued by this state, the federal government, a federally recognized American Indian tribe 
or band in this state, or a college or university in this state.” The proposal therefore would exclude 
identification such as out-of-state driver’s licenses and tribal identification issued by non
Wisconsin tribes. 
The proposal would allow, but not require, the legislature to create exceptions to the 
identification requirement. Courts have held that some exceptions are required by the U.S. 
Constitution. The proposal would also prevent future legislatures from repealing statutory 
photographic identification requirements altogether. 
A “yes” vote would vote to create a new article III, section 1m of the Wisconsin Constitution 
to require voters to present “valid photographic identification” in order to vote. 
A “no” vote would vote not to create the new constitutional provision.