Pete Karas
Wisconsin Green
About
Pete Karas is a small-business owner and former three-term Racine city alderman. He holds an economics degree from UW-La Crosse and has served as a candidate-recruitment coordinator for the Wisconsin Green Party. He advanced from the August 11, 2026 Green primary and a withdrawn ballot-access challenge, and is the Wisconsin Green Party nominee for secretary of state on the November 3 ballot.
Positions on the issues
Supports automatic voter registration.
Supports an independent redistricting commission for drawing electoral maps.
Supports lowering ballot-access thresholds for candidates.
Supports public financing of campaigns and accepts no corporate contributions.
Supports making the secretary of state's office nonpartisan and modernizing and opening its records.
Opposes granting Board of Commissioners of Public Lands easements for data-center transmission lines through state trust forests.
Experience
- Racine City Council, three terms
- Small-business owner
- UW-La Crosse, economics degree
- Wisconsin Green Party candidate-recruitment coordinator
Campaign funding
No widely reported 2026 fundraising total found; the campaign says it accepts no corporate money.