Wyoming: Undeterred by tight timeline, lawmakers charge ahead with election reform | Maggie Mullen/WyoFile
Wyoming lawmakers will once again consider a slate of bills to remake the state’s election system when the Legislature convenes in February. In the legislative off-season, lawmakers in two committees voted to sponsor 14 bills tied to elections. The legislation ranges from restricting how ballots can be returned to county clerks, limiting acceptable voter identification, banning ballot drop boxes, mandating automatic hand recounts in certain instances and upping the campaign filing requirements for independent candidates. Most of the legislation comes from the Joint Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee, which held its last off-season meetings Monday and Tuesday in Cheyenne. Elections were the committee’s top priority ahead of the 2026 session. Read Article
