On February 2, Americans Elect submitted its Wyoming petition. It needed 3,740 signatures and submitted more than 8,000, according to this news story. The reason Americans Elect submitted so many is that Wyoming takes the position that registered voters who didn’t vote in November 2010 are not eligible to sign, because Wyoming thinks of these people as “inactive”.

Most states would not be permitted to take that position, because of federal legislation passed in 1993 that forbides states to purge voters unless they have missed two congressional elections in a row. However, the federal law exempts states that have election-day registration, and Wyoming has election-day registration. The Country Party petition in Wyoming was rejected last year, because of Wyoming’s policy on voters who didn’t vote in 2010. However, the Country Party is being allowed to submit more signatures. Thanks to Mike Fellows for the link.