On November 5, the Wyoming House Joint Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Committee introduced a bill to drastically increase the difficulty for independent candidates to get on the ballot. Already Wyoming requires a higher percentage of the electorate to get on the ballot for presidential candidates running outside the two major parties. The bill wold increase the statewide independent petition from 2% of the last U.S. House vote, to 3%. It increases the petition for independent candidates for the legislature to 5%.
Also, it moves the independent candidate petition deadline from August to late May. Here is the text. The bill doesn’t yet have a bill number.
Secretary of State Chuck Gray, a Republican, is the force behind this idea.
WY hack just following orders from Devil City hacks ???
Abolish all ballot access and sore loser laws with the Liberty Ballot. The LB is a content neutral write-in only voter verifiable ballot which restores the right of each voter to nominate and elect in the same election as one could do before that state confiscation and monopolization of ballot printing at the end of the 19th century. Over 100 years of ceremonial fascist elections has produced the inevitable fascist police state.
Standing Count.
Voice vote as a backup option.