Friday, January 23, 2026 |
Photo – Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray – Courtesy State of Wyoming
2026 is an election year and Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray, who oversees statewide elections, announced the five priorities he will focus on during this year’s legislative session.
On Thursday, the secretary of state announced his top five priorities:
* Requiring paper ballots as the default method of voting in Wyoming.
* Increasing chain of custody procedures by banning ballot drop boxes and ballot harvesting.
* Strengthening Wyoming’s voter ID law by eliminating Medicare, Medicaid and student ID’s as an acceptable form of identification.
* Instituting hand tabulation verification of voting machines for recounts and audits.
* Amending the state constitution to ban dual citizenship for voting and holding office.
In a prepared statement, the Secretary of State wrote, “Pen to paper ballots, improving chain of custody procedures, strengthening voter ID, and our other proposed election integrity reforms are common-sense and needed.”
Gray referred to his list as “common-sense election integrity measures to serve the People of Wyoming by ensuring the safety and security of elections in Wyoming.”
The session begins in just over two weeks on February 9.
