Democrats are dwindling in Wyoming. A primary election law further reduces their influence
Democrats are dwindling in Wyoming. A primary election law further reduces their influence
The Wyoming Legislature, where the GOP controls over 90% of the seats, passed legislation last year banning voters from changing their party registration in the three months before the August primary.
In some far reaches of rural America, Democrats are flirting with extinction. In Niobrara County, Wyoming, the least-populated county in the least-populated state, Becky Blackburn is one of just 32 left.
Her neighbors call her “the crazy Democrat,” although it’s more a term of endearment than derision.
Some less populated counties have fewer. There are 21 Democrats in Clark County, Idaho, and 20 in Blaine County, Nebraska. But Niobrara County’s Democrats, who account for just 2.6% of registered voters, are the most outnumbered by Republicans in the 30 states that track local party affiliation, according to Associated Press election data.
In Wyoming, the state that has voted for Donald Trump by a wider margin than any other, overwhelming Republican dominance may be even more cemented-in now that the state has passed a law that makes changing party affiliation much more difficult.
And don't you just love how a Wyoming American citizen's vote is worth 4 California American citizens?
Sure is great that all that empty land can vote.
Yeah but it's okay because apparently farmers are super-citizens, and that entitles them to having more votes!
In the Senate it's much more than that.
True! I don't even mind that so much as that was part of the Great Compromise. I just mind that it applies to electing the President, which would be like giving citizens of less-populated counties in a state more voting weight in electing their Governor. Just absurd.
It'd be nice to see them merged with Colorado.
in the 30 states that track local party affiliation
Having to register your party with the state is weird
TIL to keep driving through Wyoming
90% acceleration state
Sounds like a horrible insufferable place.
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