Earlier this year, Secretary of State Chuck Gray attempted to promulgate rules to require that people prove their Wyoming residency and US citizenship when registering to vote.
When I learned about this, I was shocked that confirming the citizenship of voters wasn’t already the norm, especially here in Wyoming. It seemed to me to be common sense.
Only US citizens should be voting in US elections, and that only Wyomingites should be voting in Wyoming elections.
As a member of the Wyoming Legislature, I often hear my colleagues in the House argue against certain bills because “that isn’t happening in Wyoming.”
Even if it were true (but we have no real way of knowing), we should always strive to improve our elections. It’s important that they’re secure, and even more important that our friends and neighbors know and believe them to be secure.
Unfortunately, Gov. Gordon vetoed the proposed proof of residency rule.
With a wide open border, immigrant gangs taking over cities in Colorado, and state agencies issuing acceptable forms of voter ID to non-citizens, there’s a lot we can do to protect the sanctity of our votes.
When the Legislature returns to Cheyenne in a few months, expect to see bills requiring that voters prove their residency and citizenship when registering to vote.
Expect to see bills tightening up the security of our elections by doing away with the radical democrat practice of ballot harvesting and getting rid of unsupervised ballot drop boxes.
Expect Wyoming to join every other Republican led state in finally banning “Zuck Bucks” and other private dollars from being used in our public elections.
Our vote is so important. Why wouldn’t anyone want to protect it? We owe it to ourselves, our children, and our grandchildren.
Representative Tomi Strock HD 6
Strock represents House District 6 and lives in Douglas
