Joseph J. Czarnezki (born September 27, 1954) is an American politician and public administrator from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
[5] In May 2023, Czarnezky was appointed to the Wisconsin Elections Commission by Governor Tony Evers, replacing Julie Glancey, who stepped down before the end of her term.
Shortly after his appointment, the commission was set to vote on the reappointment of elections administrator Meagan Wolfe.
Democrats on the commission abstained from the vote, to allow Wolfe to remain in office by default, adhering to the rule set in the recent Wisconsin Supreme Court case of State ex rel.
[7] After legal wrangling, Republicans in the state senate acknowledged that they did not have the power to remove Wolfe through the confirmation process, but they took out their frustration on Czarnezky, rejecting his appointment to the commission on October 17, 2023.