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Wyoming Restrict Changing Political Party Affiliation Before Primary Elections Initiative (2022)
| Wyoming Restrict Changing Political Party Affiliation Before Primary Elections Initiative | |
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| Election date November 8, 2022 | |
| Topic Elections and campaigns | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Wyoming Restrict Changing Political Party Affiliation Before Primary Elections Initiative was not on the ballot in Wyoming as an initiated state statute on November 8, 2022.
Measure design
This measure would have prohibited voters from changing political party affiliation between May 1 through the date of the primary election.[1]
Text of measure
Ballot summary
The proposed ballot summary would have been as follows:[2]
| “ | Shall a law be enacted prohibiting electors in Wyoming from changing their political party affiliation between May 1 in an election year through the day of the primary election?[3] | ” |
Full text
The full text is available here.
Path to the ballot
The state process
In Wyoming, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated state statute for the ballot is equal to 15 percent of the total ballots cast in the previous general election. As soon as petition sponsors have received the petition form from the state, they have 18 months to collect signatures and file their petitions, which provides an initiative-specific deadline for each initiative. To reach a specific election ballot, however, signatures must be submitted prior to the convening of the legislative session immediately prior to the targeted election.
The requirements to get an initiated state statute certified for the 2022 ballot:
- Signatures: 41,776 valid signatures
- Deadline: Petitions may circulate for up to 18 months. The final signature deadline regardless of when a petition was cleared to circulate is early February of the targeted election year.
The secretary of state counts and verifies each signature.
Details about the initiative
- The initiative was approved for circulation on January 9, 2020. Since initiatives in Wyoming have a maximum circulation period of 18 months, signatures for the measure were due by July 9, 2021, in order to qualify for the 2022 ballot. Proponents did not submit signatures by the deadline.[2][4]
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Wyoming Secretary of State, "Restricting Political Party Changes for Primary Elections Initiative text," accessed January 10, 2020
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ Ballotpedia Staff, telephone communication with the Wyoming Secretary of State, July 21, 2021
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