Legislators submit a huge 45 bills to redirect the Wyoming election – Wyofile

Cheyenne-statutors of Wyoming filed a huge 45 election-related bills in the overall session in 2025-representing about 8% of all legislation in both the House and the Senate this year.

Most of the bills are sponsored by Wyoming Freedom Caucus members and allies, who say voters give them a strong and clear mandate through the system itself that they are now striving to reform.

The House Chip Neiman chairman, a Republican of Caucus Freedom from Hulet, told Wyofile “We have good choices.”

“But we can do better work,” he said, adding that the legislation is not so much to review the system but to improve.

“Mostly these are proactive measures that are trying to make sure our elections are safe,” Neiman said.

Critics say Wyoming’s elections are already sure, given how few election fraud are historically pursued. They also indicate the State Council of Enchantment, which unanimously voted to certify the results of both the primary and general elections in 2024.

A Democrat claims that Caucus Freedom’s motivations are politically, potentially putting the group in a better position before the next year’s governor elections.

Wyoming’s legislators have adopted bills on election reform reform, but this year the impetus is more intensive than usual. He comes against the background of a change to the right in the legislature and continues to question the integrity of the election by President Donald Trump and his allies.

The bills range from new restrictions on the process of registration of voters and prohibition of voting boxes, to a ban on the vote with the ranking and restriction of the use of student identification numbers and insurance cards Medicaid and Medicare as acceptable forms of identification of voters.

Two of the bills were included in the Freedom Caucus Five and Dime Plan and quickly moved through the house. Both address the voter registration process.

Another bill would codify the census by hand and come in response to the general election SNAFU of Weston County, which is now being investigated by the manager.

Two of the most ridiculous bills died late last week when Republican MPs – including several Caucus Freedom members and supported – received cold legs and killed mirror bills to ban electronic selective equipment.

“We have many questions unanswered how to achieve what I have not answered,” said reporter Nina Weber, R-Cody.

As with all legislation, this week, a bill of bills face gloves of deadlines, since Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday are the corresponding cuts for the first, second and third votes in the chamber where they were introduced.

During the publication, 30 accounts remained in the game.

Different views

Legislators who are not part of a cause of freedom have a different perspective on what needs fixation. They point out that long -line voters tested in the last elections and outside the state political groups that spend large to fill local mailboxes with inaccurate information.

“It is interesting during this session that we spend countless hours of security in our election. And everything is about tightening where you can go and how you can fill your newsletter, or you can’t throw it in a box or whatever it is, “Senator Bill Landon, R-Casper, in front of the Senate Branch of the Judiciary S

At that time, the group was discussing the Senate Joint Resolution 8, Political Costs.

With the sponsorship of more than half of the Senate, the resolution will ask Congress to propose a change in the Constitution to allow states to establish restrictions on political contributions.

“In my opinion, this type of activity threatens the security of our election here in Wyoming, when you really reach it,” Landon said before adding that he heard more than any other of his constituents.

As a resolution, there are no teeth on the account. But he still sends a message, Landon said.

“If something like this has passed through two bodies of this legislative body, it can put a little weight behind the proposed intermediate topic for the Corporation Committee to really look at this,” he said.

The resolution accepted the Senate 17-13 with an apologized on Tuesday, but not before some fearless discounts from Senator Darin Smith, a Republican from Cheen.

“The vote for this is like a vote to give up your weapons because it was said that utopia would follow,” Smith said.

The Republican Afton Senator Dan Dokstader uses a different approach.

“In these latest legislative elections, postcards were sent with information that was not real. This is my understanding [that] Whether dark money supported this, Dokstoder said. “Why would we support something like that? Why not support proof and transparency? “

Dockstader did not specify otherwise the cards in question. The issue of the wrong post office raised disputes during the election last year and even led to a continuing defamation case against a committee on political action related to the cause of freedom.

Dead democratic bills

The two election -related bills with democratic legislators, as their main sponsors died on Monday when they were not considered before the deadline.

Bill 178, “Calling for a Voting Work” would double the hours that employees have the right to have a job to vote.

“This year was one of the first years I voted on on the day of the election, and I was in line for more than two and a half hours,” said reporter Carly Provenza, D-Lramie, told home corporations, elections and political Unit Committee.

“And I was looking at dozens of people to leave the room. Many were talking about why they should leave, some of whom said “I have to go back to work,” Provenza said.

The bill would also extend the work allowance to the period of early vote of Wyoming. After he died, the main sponsor of the bill, respectively. Trey Sherwood, D-Lramie, has brought a successful amendment to the Election Bill to expand the work allowance.

As for why the Caucut of Freedom brought so many bills to change the election of the state, Sherwood told reporters that there was a simple explanation.

“This is the Caucus Freedom march to the governor’s office,” she said.

In particular, a bill would update this race in 2026 by setting up a run -off election for the five best selected Wyoming services.

The Balt of Balt election of the speaker

Neiman brought a bill 249, the “run -off elections” to secure the next governor of the state, the secretary of state, a state treasurer, a state auditor, the head of public instructions and the holders of the federal vote in the main one.

Since the state is a “republican super mastery,” Neiman told the Chamber Corporation Committee, most competitions are resolved in the main one. But a crowded primary field can lead to victory, in which the winner collects less than 50% of the vote, and this is a problem according to Neiman.

“I have already heard where there can be a potentially eight candidates in this upcoming race of the governor and this field is steadily growing,” he said.

Neiman is actually one of the names currently being worn for the race, along with Secretary of State Chuck Gray, State Treasurer Kurt Meyer and Senia Boteman and Cherry Steinmet.

On 42 pages, the bill makes significant changes to the Code of Election of the State. Basically, this involves moving the basic elections for the first five services and the federal delegation from the third Tuesday in August to the first Tuesday in May. Thus, if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote, the first two contenders will run again in August.

All other primary election competitions will be reserved until the traditional month of August.

“The Secretary of State Office states that the costs of holding state elections are unknown,” according to the fiscal note of the bill.

Meanwhile, the bill includes budget loans for $ 2 million for an “election account in the runoff” at the secretary of the civil service.

While Neiman said his intention was not to influence legislative competitions with the bill, reporter Rob Gringner, R-heyenne, said the measure would actually be attacked by MPs until May.

With the support of Neiman, Gringner brought a successful amendment to clarify the speaker’s original intention.

The bill passed at second reading at the house on Tuesday.