On March 3, Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon allowed HB 103 to become law. He wouldn’t sign it, but he didn’t veto it either, so it takes effect. It says no one may vote in a primary who has not been a registered member of the party for the preceding few months. The old law allowed anyone to join a party (and vote in its primary) on primary day.
The reason the Republican-majority legislature passed the bill is that in 2022, there was so much attention to the actions of registered Democrats who wanted to support Elizabeth Cheney in the U.S. House primary, and who switched their registration to Republican on primary day. Democratic registration in Wyoming dropped from 15.3% as of July 1, 2022, to 10.6% as of October 1, 2022. The primary had been in August 2022.
WY — LOWEST POP STATE AND LAST HOLDOUT OF THE ELEPHANT FASCISTS [WHO HAVE NOT YET MOVED TO AK FROZLAND ] ???
Fascists are left wing. The US political party (not counting street gangs or websites which try to pass as political parties) which comes closest to Mussolini’s fascism is called Democrat. They are also the US major party closest to the practices of the former USSR and the current CCP (RED CHINA). That’s because despite hating each other, communists, socialists, fascists, social democrats, democratic socialists, progressives, welfare liberals, and all kinds of leftists have more in common with each other than they do with anyone on the right.