The Strong Wyoming Communities Campaign launched in April with an effort to educate residents about election law changes that would prevent them from voting in the primary of their choice this August.
The campaign will continue to mobilize voters through the 2024 election season and to organize grassroots power on behalf of policy change during the Wyoming Legislature’s 2025 general session.
Campaign Goals
The Strong Wyoming Communities campaign engages people in the civic processes that shape our lives and the future of our state.
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- Educate and mobilize members of Better Wyoming’s community to vote in BOTH elections in 2024, all the way “down the ballot” in state and local races
- Build our statewide grassroots base of support
- Train and empower volunteers to become community leaders
- Convince Wyoming lawmakers to pass policies that benefit our lives in 2025
CAMPAIGN PHASES:
Crossover cutoff (April - May 2024)
Better Wyoming staff and volunteers called thousands of Wyoming voters to inform them
about the “crossover voting” ban that could prevent them from voting in the primary of their choice in 2024.
Meet your candidates + Voter empowerment (June - Nov. 2024)
Volunteers host “friend-banks” to ask people they know to commit to vote for a Better Wyoming, which builds our base of support and increases voter turnout.
Meanwhile, Better Wyoming organizes sit-downs between legislative candidates and voters in the districts they hope to represent to talk about findings from our 2024 healthcare campaign.
What’s the issue? + Building our base (July - Oct. 2024)
We will use digital surveys, door-to-door canvassing, and in-person “community conversation” events to engage new volunteers and learn which issues are most important to them.
Listen up, legislators! (Oct. 2024 - Jan. 2025)
Once we have grown our base of support and identified which issues we want to address, our Better Wyoming movement will use in-person meetings with legislators, public events, media, and other tactics to leverage our grassroots power and convince lawmakers to pass policies that help our communities.
To the capitol! (Jan. - March 2025)
Volunteers and organizers will coordinate with partners and lobbyists at the Wyoming Capitol to talk to lawmakers during the 2025 session, host public events, and convince the Legislature to pass our policy demands.
Campaign Updates
Why are we working to get people to vote in the Wyoming Primary elections?
By the time the general election rolls around in November, 80% of elections have already been decided. Anyone who waited to vote until then is missing out on voting in the elections that matter for Wyoming’s future. That is why Better Wyoming is working hard to get people out to vote in the Wyoming Primary elections on Aug. 18.
Better Wyoming receives “School Bell Award”
Over the last year, we’ve collaborated with the Wyoming Education Association (WEA) to protect public education funding, fight off book-banning bills that would punish educators, and train their members to become grassroots leaders in their communities.
Better Wyoming’s ‘Voter 101’ town hall talks about low voter turnout and why your vote matters
Better Wyoming held a voter information town hall in Casper to kick off this election season. This town hall provided attendees with information on how to register to vote, what you can bring with you to the polls, and more information to help folks to feel confident to cast a ballot. More importantly, this town hall discussed voter turnout and highlighted why every person’s vote matters in local and statewide elections.