Wyoming
Ballot Security
What Politicians Say
The state added a voter ID requirement after the 2020 elections.
Voters had previously been required to show ID when registering. The new law requires they present “acceptable identification” when casting a ballot during the early voting period or on Election Day.
Accepted forms of ID include a driver’s license, other state or tribal ID, US passport, military ID, public school, community college or University of Wyoming ID; or a Medicaid or Medicare insurance card.
Voters who do not have ID can cast a provisional ballot. Nationally, as many as 3 in 10 provisional ballots are not counted.
For vote-by-mail, the law requires voters either register in person or include a copy of their ID when sending in their registration.
Ease of Voting
The law also waives the $10 fee for a state ID card at the Department of Motor Vehicles if the person states that they are only using it to vote.
It also requires that notices the DMV sends about ID cards that are about to expire to include a reminder about the voter ID requirement.
Ballot Security
A 2022 law allows local elections administrators to begin processing mail ballots the Thursday before the election and makes it a felony punishable by up to five years in prison and $10,000 in fines to release any results until polls close on Election Day.
How Politicians Responded to the 2020 Election
Governor Mark Gordon supported a Texas lawsuit asking the Supreme Court to intervene in the election, asking Attorney General Bridget Hill to look into the case.
He said that the two of them decided not to join because the lawsuit could have “unintended consequences” for states running their own elections, but if the Supreme Court took up the case they would submit a “suitable and appropriate” comment then.
US Senator Cynthia Lummis objected to the certification of Biden electors from Pennsylvania.
The state’s lone US Representative, Liz Cheney, has been a leading Republican voice against Trump’s baseless claims of widespread fraud, serving as vice chair on a House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
She lost the August primary to Harriet Hageman, who said the 2020 election was “rigged.”
Republican Secretary of State nominee Chuck Gray has said “the woke, big tech left” steals elections.