Wyoming’s voter registration numbers have dipped by more than 20,000 over the last two months, but a spokeswoman for the secretary of state’s office said there’s no cause for alarm.
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By Ellen Fike, Cowboy State Daily
Wyoming’s voter registration numbers have dipped by more than 20,000 over the last two months, but a spokeswoman for the secretary of state’s office said there’s no cause for alarm.
As of Jan. 1, Wyoming has 302,963 registered voters, but as of Monday, the state only had 279,864, a drop of 23,099 voters.
However, there hasn’t been a mass exodus of voters from the state. Instead, it is the result of a cleaning up of the state’s files.
“Wyoming is required by law to remove, or purge, voters after every general election,” Secretary of State’s office spokeswoman Monique Meese told Cowboy State Daily. “The voters being purged are those who did not vote in the last general election and did not respond to a statutorily required notice asking if they wanted to remain a registered voter.”
Wyoming’s 23 counties are required to notify the secretary of state’s office by Feb. 15 of the year following the November election of voters who did not cast ballots.
“While it is speculation on my part – I would suspect that is the reason for the decrease,” Meese said.
In February, there were 294,113 registered voters, down more than 8,000 than the month prior.
According to the secretary of state’s voter statistics, the breakdown of registered voters in Wyoming as of Monday looked like: 195,592 Republicans, 46,307 Democrats, 2,548 Libertarians, 696 Constitution Party, 34,682 unaffiliated and 39 “other,” which includes individuals registered in parties that are no longer recognized in Wyoming.
Laramie County saw the highest number of registered voters with 45,337 (with 9,610 Democrats, 28,608 Republicans, 72 Constitution Party, 358 Libertarian, 6,676 unaffiliated and 13 other).
Although there was an overall drop in voters across all parties, a few parties saw an increase in registered voters in certain counties. Albany, Converse, Crook and Hot Springs counties all saw slight upticks in their independent affiliation numbers compared to February.
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Charles Cole
March 2, 2021 at 5:31 pm
Not to worry. If the Democrats’ legislative agenda (see HR 1) passes whereby they intend to nationalize the gimmicks they used in the swing states in 2020, you’ll see a huge increase in Wyoming voters in 2022. With their online voting scheme and mandatory, unrestricted vote by mail with no photo ID and no signature validation or comparison, there will probably be more votes cast in Wyoming in 2022 than we have residents eligible to vote in the state. I’m not kidding. This is what they’re after.
Cindy Livingston
March 18, 2021 at 8:47 am
You are absolutely correct and we the people need to be talking to anyone who will listen and getting people to write to their congress men and women so this does not pass. We also need to all be involved in the 2022 elections so that some seats can be turned or our great Country with all of the Freedoms that we enjoy will cease to exist as we know it.