Section DHS 94.22 - Voting(1) The director of each treatment facility serving inpatients shall ensure that inpatients have an opportunity to vote, unless they are otherwise restricted by law from voting, by: (a) Surveying all patients 18 years of age or over to ascertain their interest in registering to vote, obtaining absentee ballots and casting ballots. The survey shall be conducted far enough before an election to allow sufficient time for voter registration and acquisition of absentee ballots;(b) Making arrangements with state and local election officials to register voters and to enable interested inpatients to cast ballots at the facility; and(c) With a patient's consent, assisting election officials in determining the patient's place of residence for voting purposes.(2) A treatment facility director may not prohibit an inpatient from receiving campaign literature or placing political advertisements in his or her personal quarters and shall permit candidates to campaign during reasonably regulated times at designated locations on facility property.Wis. Admin. Code Department of Health Services DHS 94.22
Cr. Register, January, 1987, No. 373, eff. 2-1-87.