This article in the Wyoming Tribune Eagle, the daily newspaper of Cheyenne, exposes how write-in votes are treated in Wyoming. The article concerns write-ins in primaries for Precinct Committee. But what the article says about those write-ins is also true in general elections. Wyoming won’t tally write-ins.
This would never be an issue if votes were taken by standing count, hand count, or voice vote.
The article says two things about write-in votes (for party committee members), that they are only counted by the clerk, not by canvassing boards like other votes, and that they are only reported to party chairpersons, not published like other results. It doesn’t say they aren’t counted at all, though it does note that after the writer’s inquiry, his county’s clerk reviewed the ballots and found that around two-thirds of write-in votes on them were missed the first time (the initial count had shown none for the candidate the writer wrote-in and the recount found 14). I know that it is generally true throughout the country that many write-in votes are missed in the counting process, even when the law says they are supposed to be counting write-in votes. Which of the other two issues noted in the article are true of general elections (and primary elections for nomination to public office) in Wyoming?