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SF0096 • 2011

Open primaries.

AN ACT relating to elections; providing for electors to request any single party or nonpartisan ballot at the primary election; providing that voting a single party or nonpartisan ballot at the primary election does not constitute a declaration of party affiliation; and providing for an effective date.

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Inactive

Wyoming marks this bill as inactive, which usually means it is no longer moving in the current session.

Sponsor
Senator Rothfuss
Last action
2011-03-02
Official status
inactive
Effective date
Not listed

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Bill History

  1. 2011-03-02 Senate

    S Committee Returned Bill Pursuant to SR 7-3(c)

  2. 2011-01-17 Senate

    S Introduced and Referred to S07; No Report Prior to CoW Cutoff

  3. 2011-01-13 Senate

    S Received for Introduction

  4. 2011-01-11 LSO

    Bill Number Assigned

Current Bill Text

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WORKING DRAFT
2011
STATE OF
WYOMING
11LSO-0419

SENATE FILE
NO.
SF0096

Open primaries.

Sponsored by:
Senator(s) Rothfuss and Representative(s) Throne

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to
elections; providing for electors to request any single party or nonpartisan ballot at the primary election; providing that voting a single party or nonpartisan ballot at the primary election does not constitute a declaration of party affiliation;
and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.

W.S.
22
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3
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109
(a)
and
22
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5
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212
are
amended to read:

22
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3
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109.

Certification and transmittal of poll lists; posting of registry lists.

(a)

Not less than ten (10) days before any election, the county clerk shall certify and transmit to the officer in charge of each election at his request the necessary poll lists for the precincts or areas involved in the election. Not less than ten (10) days prior to the primary and general elections the county clerks shall deliver three (3) copies of the poll lists for each precinct in the county to the county chairman of each political party in the respective counties.
Only integrated poll lists shall be provided and kept at any primary election in the same manner as a general election.

22
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5
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212.

When declaration of party affiliation required; provision of primary ballots.

An elector requesting a major party ballot
must

is not required to
declare his party affiliation, or sign an application for change of affiliation before he may receive a party ballot. An elector may vote only the nonpartisan ballot and if so, is
also
not required to declare his party affiliation.
However, an elector may request only one (1) ballot at the primary election.
Requesting a partisan primary election ballot
constitutes

does not constitute
a declaration of party affiliation. A change in declaration of party affiliation
, if done so pursuant to W.S. 22
‑
5
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214,
shall be entered on the poll list by the election judge.

Section 2.

This act is effective July 1, 2011.

(END)

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