FAQs • Lake Delton, WI • CivicEngage

Am I Eligible to Run for Village Trustee?

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How to Run for Village Trustee

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2. What do I do first?: December 1 is the first day to register with the Administrator-Clerk-Treasurer and fill out paperwork (ETHCF-1, EL-169, EL-162) before you accept donations or begin campaigning or circulating papers for the spring election.

3. What is the earliest date to circulate nomination papers?: Papers for the spring election, may not be circulated prior to December 1.

4. When is the deadline for filing nomination papers?: They must be filed no later than 5 pm on the first Tuesday in January preceding the election.

6. Do I need to file campaign finance reports?: If you don’t anticipate accepting contributions, making disbursements, incurring loans, or other obligations exceeding $1,000 and you don’t anticipate accepting contributions exceeding $100 from one source in a calendar year, then you may be exempt from filing campaign finance reports.

Each signer must live within the Village of Lake Delton.
Electors must sign their own name unless unable to do so because of physical disability.
A person may not sign for his or her spouse, or for any other person, even when they have been given a power of attorney by that person.
Only one signature per person for the same office is valid.
A complete address, including the municipality of residence for voting purposes, and the street and number, if any, of the residence, (or postal address if it is located in the jurisdiction that the candidate seeks to represent), shall be listed for each signature on the nomination paper.
The date of the signature must be included.
The elector must be 18 years of age at the time the paper is signed.