Make no mistake. Wyoming is leading the nation in election integrity.
As Wyoming’s chief election official, last December we launched an election integrity agenda to ensure that we reach our full potential in advancing these goals in the 2025 General Session.
With the tireless work of our administration, a new conservative majority in the State House of Representatives, and important advocacy from the people of Wyoming, the 2025 Legislative Session witnessed the passage of a record number of conservative election integrity reforms, more than any other state achieved this year.
These include landmark legislation advance President Trump’s important work and will make Wyoming’s elections more safe and secure than ever before.
A number of these reforms go into effect July 1, and our office has been diligently at work on implementing these key pieces of our conservative election integrity agenda.
Effective July 1, our administration welcomes the addition of these measures to Wyoming’s Election Code. These are also key priorities of the Trump Administration, as shown in his election integrity order issued in March.
Requiring Proof of Citizenship, Wyoming Residency to Vote: Key to our conservative election integrity agenda was House Enrolled Act 57, which requires proof of United States citizenship and Wyoming residency to register to vote in Wyoming, as well as impose a durational residency requirement to vote.
HEA 57 was the #1 priority of our election integrity agenda. It’s a landmark bill, and represents almost two years of our administration’s tireless efforts to strengthen Wyoming’s voter registration statutes and prevent non-citizens from voting in Wyoming elections. Only U.S. citizens, and only Wyomingites, should be voting in Wyoming elections. Period. And this measure is pivotal to fulfilling that promise.
Unsurprisingly, Democrat Attorney Marc Elias has sued us to try to stop enforcement of this important election integrity law. This lawsuit shows how far the radical Left will try to go to try to stop these commonsense measures.
We are working to defend this important law requiring proof of citizenship for registering to vote vigorously in court. On Friday, we filed our response to Elias’ motion for a preliminary injunction.
Banning Foreign Funding of Ballot Measures: Another key priority going into effect on July 1 is HEA 61, which bans foreign funding of ballot measures. This reform is pivotal to closing the federal loophole preventing foreign interference of elections, and will ensure no foreign national is able to inject money into Wyoming’s initiatives.
Voter Registration List Maintenance: A huge priority of our administration and key to fulfilling President Trump’s Executive Order Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections is enhanced voter list maintenance. HEA 62, Voter List Maintenance, is pivotal in strengthening Wyoming’s voter list maintenance procedures. Our office is partnering with President Trump and DHS Secretary Noem to ensure enhancements are made to remove non-citizens from Wyoming’s voter rolls.
Banning Zuck Bucks: I have long advocated for banning private funding of election administration, or “Zuck Bucks,” in Wyoming. Wyoming’s exposure to partisan organizations attempting to fund election administration was deeply disturbing, and I have been vocal in the face of real evidence of their presence in Wyoming absent an outright ban. Come July 1st, Wyoming will join over half of other jurisdictions to ban private funding of election administration.
Banning Ranked Choice Voting: Finally, July 1st will mark the beginning of our state’s ban on ranked choice voting. Ranked choice voting’s confusing and deceptive nature effectively suppresses many voters through exhausting their ballot, and undermines the bedrock of our republic using a confusing system that has proved disastrous to implement.
In New York City just last week, everyone saw what ranked choice voting looks like: an absolute and utter disaster. New York City’s use of ranked choice voting is a system which disenfranchises voters through ballot exhaustion and its confusing nature.
At one time, insiders were attempting to bring ranked choice voting to Wyoming by having municipalities adopt this system of voting, just like New York City adopted it. We stopped this effort in 2023. And in 2025, under our watch, we completely banned the silly practice of ranked choice voting.
And while we’re leading the nation in the passage of these reforms, our work is far from over. While we will continue to implement these tremendous additions to Wyoming’s Election Code for future election cycles, our administration is continuing to push measures designed to increase confidence and security in our elections, including requiring pen and paper ballots, banning ballot harvesting, requiring true photo ID for Voter ID, just to name a few.
Chuck Gray was elected Wyoming Secretary of State in 2022. As Secretary of State, he serves as the Chief Election Officer for the State of Wyoming. Prior to his election to statewide office, Gray served three terms in the Wyoming House of Representatives.
