Wyoming 2025 2025 Regular Session

Wyoming House Bill HB0238 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/17/2025

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STATE OF WYOMING
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HOUSE BILL NO. HB0238
Ballot harvesting prohibition.
Sponsored by: Representative(s) Johnson, Davis, Guggenmos, 
Haroldson, Knapp, Lucas, Pendergraft, Smith, 
S, Wasserburger and Webb and Senator(s) 
Hutchings, Ide, McKeown, Pearson and 
Steinmetz
A BILL
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1 AN ACT relating to elections; prohibiting a person from 
2 delivering ballots of other electors to the county clerk; 
3 providing an exception; specifying that ballots shall not 
4 be tabulated as specified; providing a penalty; and 
5 providing for an effective date.
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9W.S. 22-9-113 and 22-26-101(a) by creating 
10 a new paragraph (xii) are amended to read:
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14 2025STATE OF WYOMING25LSO-06512HB02381 Upon receipt, a qualified elector shall mark the 
2 ballot and sign the affidavit. The ballot shall then be 
3 sealed in the inner ballot envelope and mailed or delivered 
4 to the clerk subject to subsection (b) of this section.
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20 (a)  The following acts in connection with or related 
21 to the election process or an election, if knowingly and 
22 willfully committed, are felony offenses punishable by not 
23 more than five (5) years' imprisonment in the state  2025STATE OF WYOMING25LSO-06513HB0238
1 penitentiary or a fine of not more than ten thousand 
2 dollars ($10,000.00), or both:
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6.  This act is effective July 1, 2025.
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