22-2-101. Applicability and construction of Election Code generally. (a) Chapters 1 through 28 of this Election Code apply to the following elections: (i) General elections; (ii) Primary elections; (iii) Special elections to fill vacancies in the office of representative in congress; (iv) County elections; (v) Municipal elections; (vi) School and community college elections; (vii) Bond, […]
22-2-103. Chief election officers. The secretary of state is the chief election officer for the state and shall maintain uniformity in the applications and operations of the election laws of Wyoming. Each county clerk is the chief election officer for the county.
22-2-104. Election dates. (a) A general election shall be held for all the precincts of this state on the Tuesday next following the first Monday in November of each even-numbered year. (b) A primary election shall be held at the regular polling places for each precinct on the first Tuesday after the third Monday in […]
22-2-105. Terms of office and offices voted on at general elections. (a) The terms of office and offices voted on at general elections are as follows: (i) Two Year Term.-At every general election there shall be elected the number of representatives in congress to which this state is entitled and members of the Wyoming house […]
22-2-106. Election of presidential and vice-presidential electors. At the general election in 1976 and every fourth year thereafter, there shall be elected the number of electors of president and vice-president of the United States to which the state is entitled.
22-2-107. When elected state and county officers assume offices. All state and county officers elected at a general election shall assume their offices on the first Monday in January next following their election.
22-2-108. Secretary of state to certify officers to be elected. Between the twenty-fourth day of April and the third day of May in each general election year, the secretary of state shall transmit to the county clerk of each county a certified list stating what officers, other than county and precinct officers, are to be […]
22-2-109. County clerk to publish proclamation. (a) Between one hundred one (101) and ninety-one (91) days before each primary election the county clerk in each county shall publish at least once in a newspaper of general circulation in the county and post in the county clerk’s office and at the place where each municipality within […]
22-2-110. Computing periods of time. (a) Except for special elections to fill vacancies for a congressman under W.S. 22-18-105 through 22-18-109, periods of time are computed by excluding the specific day and counting the prescribed number of days, including Saturdays, Sundays and full legal holidays. If the first day of a time period falls on […]
22-2-111. Employees time off to vote. (a) Any person entitled to vote at any primary or general election or special election to fill a vacancy in the office of representatives in the congress of the United States is, on the day of such election, entitled to absent himself from any service or employment in which […]
22-2-112. Hours of county clerk’s office on election day. The office of county clerk shall remain open for election business on election day during normal hours of election operations. With prior notice to the public the office of county clerk may be closed to all nonelection business except the recording of documents.
22-2-113. Availability and form of registry lists; use of copies; election record; purging. (a) The secretary of state shall furnish at a reasonable price registry lists to any candidate for a political office in the state, candidate’s campaign committee, political party central committees and officials thereof, elected officials, political action committees, individuals promoting or opposing […]
22-2-116. Restrictions on holding more than 1 elected public office. No person may hold an elective public office in any governmental entity which either provides any funding for or receives any funding from another governmental entity in which that person holds elected public office. If a person also is elected to a public office while […]
22-2-117. Vote required for election; ratification. (a) Partisan and nonpartisan candidates who receive the largest number of votes for each office to be filled at the general election are elected. (b) Repealed By Laws 2009, Ch. 100, § 3, Ch. 168, § 202. (c) With the exception of constitutional amendments and statewide initiatives and referenda, […]
22-2-119. Qualified elector may vote; acceptable identification requirement; provisional ballots. Except as specifically provided otherwise, a person may vote only if the person is a qualified elector, only in the precinct in which the person resides and, if voting in person, only if the person presents acceptable identification immediately before voting at the polling place […]
22-2-120. Publication of Election Code. The secretary of state, not later than the first of July in general election years, shall publish the Election Code on the secretary of state’s official website.
22-2-121. Chief election officer to prepare forms; rules; advice. (a) In carrying out his responsibilities under title 22, the secretary of state shall prepare: (i) Written directives and instructions relating to and based on the election laws; (ii) Sample copies of prescribed and suggested forms; (iii) Advice or request from the attorney general’s office advisory […]
22-2-122. State and federal share of qualified election expenses; election readiness account. (a) There is created the election readiness account. The account shall consist of federal funds received by the state of Wyoming from the federal election assistance commission’s 2018 Help America Vote Act (HAVA) election security fund and any state appropriations authorized by the […]
