Another Wyoming bill to prevent voters from switching parties during the two months before a primary is moving. SF 160 passed the Agriculture Committee on January 30. A very similar bill, SF 32, had been defeated last month in the Corporations, Elections, and Political Subdivisions by one vote. So, proponents of the idea then introduced a new bill, SF 160, and sent it to a different committee.

A somewhat similar bill in the House is HF 106.

In other Wyoming legislative news, on January 29, SF 97 was defeated in the Senate Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee. It would have provided that all qualified parties nominate by primary. Current law says small qualified parties nominate by convention, and larger ones by primary.