Wyoming Bill Would Forbid Voters from Switching Parties on Primary Election Day

SF 13, introduced into the Wyoming 2011 legislative session by Senator Kit Jennings (R-Casper) and Representative Amy Edmonds (R-Cheyenne) would eliminate the ability of a voter to switch parties on primary election day. It would also change the deadline for a voter to switch parties before primary day, from 30 days before the primary, to 60 days before.

If this bill passes, and if the Democratic Party does not wish to be bound by the new, more restrictive time limits, the Democratic Party could probably win a lawsuit, to retain the ability of people to switch to the Democratic Party on primary day. Thanks to Nancy Hanks for news about SF 13.


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  1. Again and again –
    the nomination of candidates for PUBLIC office by PUBLIC Electors is PUBLIC business according to PUBLIC L-A-W-S.

    ALL Electors (top 2 States) or some factional part of ALL such Electors — caucus folks, restricted primary folks, etc. — all the other possible combinations of party voters with or without independents.

    P.R. and App.V. – NO primaries are needed — NO party hack SUPER-dangerous registration stuff is needed.

    Are you now or have you ever been a [registered] member of the AAA to ZZZ party ???

    See the commie witch hunts in the 1940s-1950s in the gerrymander Congress — likely unknown to many younger readers of this blog.

  2. If someone could switch political parties on primary day, what is to stop them from voting in the Democratic primary in the morning, switching to the Republican party and voting in their primary in the afternoon?

  3. Wyoming has registration at the polls, so the election officials already have procedures in place to detect double voting. Unlike Texas, almost every other state arranges its primary elections so that each party’s primary is in the same physical space, with the same polling place officials and sign-in book.

  4. Jim Riley,
    I think you asked a very good question.

    Richard Winger,

    In California we have I think 15 days to prevent a switch in parties if that has not changed. Look what happened in the event leading up to the AIP
    State Central Committee in 2007.

    The wife of the person claiming to be a former
    state chairman of the party was registered as a
    Republican in Los Angeles County and registered
    as a American Independent in San Bernadino County.
    She was honored (or dishonored by the Republican
    Party) by being named as Republican Business Woman
    of the Year for California at the same time she served as a member of the American Independent Party’s State Central Committee and AIP National
    Committee. She also held the post of party officer
    in the AIP.

    It had to take a vote of the State Central Committee to remove her from these AIP posts.
    All this was over the objects of her husband
    who has sued the 2006 – 2008 AIP party chairman
    and the 2008 – 2010 AIP party charman over three
    different law suits. Next hearing of King vs.
    Robinson will be on March 11, 2011 in Fairfield,
    CA.

    If the 15 days can not be checked between counties
    next to each other, what is to prevent persons voting intra-county or intra voting place. All that will lead to is more voting by the few that
    have the time to drive around on election day.

    Sincerely, Mark Seidenberg, Vice Chairman, American
    Independent Party

  5. What super-MORON State does NOT make it a MAJOR F-E-L-O-N-Y to vote more than once in the same election ???

  6. It is a major FELONY to vote more than once, but
    the California Secretary of State Bowen let a dead
    person run in 2008 for a Presidential Elector because the Chairman of the Democratic Party asked
    her to certify a dead person. This was a dead elector from Humbolt County, CA.

    Sincerely, Mark Seidenberg, Vice Chairman, American
    Independent Party

  7. FYI, this bill is in direct response to the (not well documented) charge that many Democrats from the teachers’ and state employees’ unions switched to GOP on primary election day resulting in centrist Matt Mead winning the GOP nomination for governor.

    FWIW, IMO, state-funded primary elections need to go away, and all qualified political parties should have a level playing field for general election ballot access. There should be no distinction between provisional, minor and major parties, which is how Wyoming election law works now.

    Don Wills
    Laramie County, Wyoming

  8. #4 The advantage of the Texas system is that new parties do not have to pre-qualify in order to conduct nomination activities, they simply have to demonstrate a modicum of participation in those activities, in order to have the nominations be considered valid, or use the system in other states where a small coterie of party insiders choose the candidates and then have a petition drive endorse their choices.

    If a party is incapable of conducting a primary, maybe they shouldn’t be making nominations.

  9. #9 Will another Union Army have to liberate Texas folks from its super-MORON evil gerrymander regime ???

  10. #11 There was an election in which a voter did vote in the primary and runoff of two different parties. The runoff turned out to be extremely close. As it turns out, if you vote illegally, you don’t have the right to a secret ballot.

    So the judge was questioning these “voters” so he could decide whether to overturn the result of the election. He got to one who replied something like this, “I’m 80 years old, I’ve had a good life, I’ve accomplished about everything I ever wanted to do, so you might as well come and putt the cuffs on me now, because I’m not going to tell you how I voted.”

    You’re going to come liberate him?

  11. #12 The MORON TX regime does not have a checklist of which party hack registered voters vote in which party hack primary ???

    Or — do TX regime folks just walk into an election at age 0 to 200 and get ballots for free ???

    P.R. and App.V. — to end the growing MADNESS in ALL New Age MORON regimes.

  12. #13 The party hacks have the voters sign their copy of the poll book, which they give to the county non-party hacks. The county non-party hacks then give those to the party hacks before the runoff. The party hacks are supposed to check for cross-over voting.

    See also 162.004, 172.086, and 172.125

  13. #14 Where is that #11 Union Army to liberate TX from its party hacks especially ??? — used to be mostly Donkeys — now mostly Elephants — due to many northern Elephants moving south.

    Where is that Model Constitution and Model Election Law — to have REAL Democracy and END ALL the party hack insane stuff ???

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