Election law bills in Wyoming that would have made interesting substantive changes have failed to pass by the necessary deadline. SF 108 would have switched Wyoming to a top-two open primary system. HB 96 would have made it easier for a party to remain ballot-qualified. HB 141 would have prevented members of one party from switching their party registration on primary day so as to vote in another party’s primary, although it would have retained the ability of independent voters to switch to any party on primary day for the purpose of voting in that party’s primary.

One bill that did pass is one of the Secretary of State’s omnibus election bills, HB 2. It says that independent candidates must show their petition to the Secretary of State and get it approved, before beginning to circulate it.