784.06 Pleading.

WI Stat § 784.06 (2019) (N/A)
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784.06 Pleading. In an action brought to determine the right to any office, in every case where the defendant has the official certificate of election to the office, the complaint shall state in what respect such certificate was improperly or illegally issued; and if any party claims that illegal votes were cast at the election for the office, that party shall state in the pleading the names of the persons whom the party claims cast illegal votes which were counted, and in what such illegality consists, and the election district where such illegal votes were cast, and the number of legal votes cast for each claimant, respectively; if the party claims that lawful votes were tendered and not received, the names of such voters and the election district where tendered shall be alleged; if the party claims lawful votes were rejected by the canvassers, the number and election district where so rejected shall be alleged, together with the number which it is claimed should have been counted for claimant. And if it be alleged by either party that the entire vote of any town, municipal corporation or election district was illegal, that party's pleading shall specify the grounds of such alleged illegality.

History: 1971 c. 304; 1979 c. 32 s. 61; 1979 c. 176; Stats. 1979 s. 784.06.