Healthcare access, quality public education, affordable communities, and accessible public lands are just a few of the issues that state legislators, county commissioners, city councilors, and school board trustees make big decisions about. All of these leaders play major roles in our day-to-day lives and shape the Wyoming that future generations will inherit.
Voting is one of the most important ways that we can make our voices heard and express the will of our communities.
Better Wyoming will provide you with all the information you need to cast a ballot, including updates when and how to cast a ballot, and which political offices influence issues you care about. Sign up to commit to be a Wyoming voter in 2024 today,
Most political decisions that affect our day-to-day lives aren’t made by national politicians. They're made by people we vote for further down the ballot, in our local and state election. From education to housing, good jobs to the environment, these issues are shaped by the actions of local and state elected officials. This election season, make sure you know who impacts the issues you care about.
Wyoming’s public education system is among the best in the country, providing hardworking Wyoming families and communities with a quality education that many other rural states lack. To protect Wyoming’s education system, vote for candidates who support well-funded schools, and who keep education free from the hot-button politics that hinder teachers' ability to educate our next generations.
- State legislators determine school funding levels and write laws impacting public schools, such as efforts to ban books and punish librarians or to create positive new programs like universal pre-K education.
- School Board Trustees oversee local school districts, making decisions about curriculum, teacher pay, and broad policies that affect students' well-being.
Voting in Wyoming is easy with the right information
This is what you need to know to cast a ballot in the 2024 General Election.
There are three ways to vote in the General Election!
- Early at the Courthouse October 3rd– November 4th (Mon. - Fri. during office hours)
- Bring a valid government ID!
- On November 5 – Election Day
- Find your designated polling place.
- Bring a valid ID to your polling place between 7am – 7pm.
- Request your mail-in ballot after October 8th.
- Contact your local County Clerk to request a ballot
- Do your research
- Use this guide to learn about your Federal and State legislative races
- For local 'down ballot' races fill out the Personalized Voting Information at Vote 411
- If you have any other questions your local County Clerk is always a helpful resource
Not registered but want to vote? No sweat!
Wyoming residents can register and vote at the same time.
- Register and vote at the same time at your local county courthouse October 22 – November 4, 2024.
- Register and vote on Election Day, November 5, between 7am and 7pm at your polling place.
- IMPORTANT: Bring a valid government ID, such as a driver's license from any state or your passport.
That’s it! If you have questions, reach out to us at info@betterwyo.org or contact your local county clerk.
Rev. Bob Garrard
I vote because it is a right and responsibility as a citizen of the USA. Nowhere else can I send a more meaningful political message. If I do not vote, then this right can disappear. I vote even when I know my vote may be like spitting into the Wyoming wind.
Jordan Bishop
For me, voting is a concrete way that I can put my faith into action. I believe that all people of good conscience have an obligation to vote based on our values, not on a partisan basis. If we value human dignity, equality, and justice then it is our moral duty to make our voices heard by voting in local, state, and national elections.
Campaign Updates
Statewide Accountability Report 4: Feb. 24 – Mar. 7
The final two weeks of a legislative session usually involves intense negotiations between the House and Senate over the budget. But this year, in an unprecedented event, the two chambers simply decided to not pass a budget, leaving millions of dollars of state programs unfunded.
Meanwhile, a handful of bills proceeded to the capitol toward the governor’s desk, while many others—including most election-related bills—died. The Freedom Caucus plugged through more anti-abortion bills, some bad education bills passed while others perished, and some common sense bills helping workers and seniors survived (barely).
At last, the session ended, and after overturning several of the governor’s vetoes, the legislators went home.
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Statewide Accountability Report #3: Feb. 10 – 21
The fourth and fifth weeks of the 2025 legislative session included debate over the state budget. Lawmakers voted for or against funding for programs related to healthcare, public education, wildfire relief, and more.
In the final weeks of the session, the House and Senate will need to negotiate to find a compromise between their two separate plans to fund the state.
Meanwhile, several bills to decrease public school funding and divert funding to private schools advanced, along with proposals to politicize education and tax cuts for homeowners and coal companies that will defund local services in our communities.
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Statewide Accountability Report #2: Jan. 27 – Feb. 7
In the second two weeks of the 2025 legislative session, the Freedom Caucus kept pounding away at its highest priorities in the House, including abortion restrictions, voter restrictions, and multiple bills to tear down public education.
Both chambers advanced even more property tax cut proposals, and in the Senate a resolution advanced in support of Wyoming seizing and selling federal public lands.
The House and Senate each worked on their own versions of the supplemental budget, but debates were still raging at our deadline. We will focus on the budget in Report 3.
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