The Wyoming Democratic Party will postally mail a ballot to every registered Democratic voter in the state, asking for their choice for the Democratic presidential nomination. The ballot will use ranked choice voting. Anyone who holds the constitutional qualifications to be president, and who states intention to seek the Democratic nomination, and who pays a fee of $2,500, may appear on the ballot. See the rules here.

The ballots must be postmarked no later than March 20, and must arrive at the party office by March 28.

Wyoming is one of the few states that has never had a government-administered presidential primary.

West Virginia Delegate Pat McGeehan has introduced HB 2169. It eases the definition of qualified party, from a group that got 1% for Governor, to a group that got 1% for any statewide race or which has at least 5,000 registered members. Thanks to Jeff Becker for this news.

On January 23, the lawsuit Tulsi Gabbard v Hillary Clinton was assigned to a judge, Valerie Caproni. Judge Caproni is an Obama appointee and before her service as a judge of the U.S. District Court in the southern district of New York, she was General Counsel to the FBI. The lawsuit charges that Hillary Clinton slandered Tulsi Gabbard last October, when Clinton said on television that Gabbard is a Russian agent. Clinton implied the same for Jill Stein.