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Wisconsin’s Primary Election is Tomorrow
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| The Wisconsin Primary Election is tomorrow, August 11, 2026. Polls are open from 7 am until 8 pm.
What’s On My Ballot. Find out what’s on your ballot at MyVote WI. The following primary races will be on ballots statewide, along with other local races:
- U.S. Representative
- Governor
- Lieutenant Governor
- Attorney General
- Secretary of State
- State Treasurer
- State Representative
- and more local races
Since this is a partisan primary election, on your ballot you must select one political party and then only vote for candidates within that party. If you vote for candidates from more than one party, your votes will not count.
Bring a Photo ID. Remember to bring an acceptable photo ID to the polling place. If you need to register at the polls, you should also bring along proof of residence. Learn more about what to expect at the polls on election day from the Wisconsin Elections Commission.
Voting Absentee. If you requested an absentee ballot, it must be received by your municipal clerk no later than 8 pm on Election Day.
To learn more, visit myvote.wi.gov to:
- check your registration
- find your polling place
- find your municipal clerk’s office
- see what’s on your ballot
- and more.
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Our Call as Catholic Citizens
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| The Wisconsin Catholic Conference has prepared resources to help Catholics reflect on what it means to be a faithful citizen in public policy and voting issues. Faithful Citizenship is a call to action to become involved with legislative policy and to exercise the right to vote, so as to protect human life, uphold human dignity, and promote the common good. The WCC resources are based on the U.S. bishops’ statement, Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship: A Call to Political Responsibility from the Catholic Bishops of the United States.
Catholic Social Teaching helps to discern which public policies and politicians best embody a respect for human dignity and the common good. This is especially important at election time. As the U.S. bishops wrote, “On these often complex matters, it is the laity’s responsibility to form their consciences and grow in the virtue of prudence to approach the many and varied issues of the day with the mind of Christ.”
To form our consciences, the following questions can help Catholics discern who best embodies the principles of Catholic Social Teaching.
Where does a candidate stand on:
- protecting human life from conception to natural death?
- preserving the state ban on abortion, assisted suicide, euthanasia, and the death penalty?
- upholding the innate equality, dignity, and complementarity of male and female?
- protecting marriage as the lifelong union of one man and one woman?
- respecting the family and parents as the primary educators of their children?
- providing resources to vulnerable women and children?
- protecting religious freedom at home and abroad?
- eliminating violence, whether by guns, war, terrorism, torture, abuse, or trafficking?
- assuring basic support for people living in poverty, domestically and internationally?
- treating all migrants and refugees with dignity and respect?
- eliminating racism?
- increasing access to housing, healthcare, and education?
- upholding the dignity of work and the rights of workers?
- preserving our environment and natural resources?
- and all that promotes human dignity and the common good?
Catholic Social Teaching does not neatly fit into party platforms. Rather, it reflects ethical principles that can unite all people. As faithful Catholics and American citizens, we are all called to participate in public life with the mind of Christ. |
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“This vision for the human person is rooted in natural law, the moral order that God has written on the human heart, whose deeper truths are illuminated by the Gospel of Christ…. [I urge you] to continue to work for a world where power is tamed by conscience, and law is at the service of human dignity.”
– Pope Leo XIV
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