by Benjamin Barr Mail-In Voting and Absentee Voting Concerns On March 13, 2020, President Trump proclaimed a national emergency in response to the Coronavirus outbreak.1 Since then, many states, including Wyoming, enacted emergency declarations and a variety of stay-at-home or shelter-in-place orders.2 States continue to struggle with voting during...

Our United States of America was founded with an amazingly original premise, that the power of government belonged to the citizens of the United States. This is documented in the US Constitution, as amended and includes the Bill of Rights.For the last 244 years these promises have been kept through numerous crisis, wars, including the civil war, an...

by Jan OttoWhy do we vote? We vote to preserve liberty and justice for all citizens and their families according to their decisions as members of our free and open society. Elections express the will of "we the people" in a city, county, state or country -- provided they are fair. Fair elections have two missions. The first is to validate the choic...

CLEAR UNDERSTANDING The majority of the reporting on Voter Security leaves the public with the feelings of mistrust, confusion and fear. The truth is that all well-meaning Americans agree -- the vote must represent those citizens who are registered, alive and legal. As consumers of media all of us are entrusted to reason not merely react. When comm...

by Staff Writer The State of Wyoming recently purchased ES&S voting machines, a subsidiary of the McCarthy Group, based in Omaha, Nebraska. ES&S lays claim to 60% of the U.S. market for voting machines. Specific models purchased include the ExpressVote, designed for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the DS 200/450/8...

by Staff Writer The right to vote, and the exercise of that right, are fundamental, bedrock assurances of citizens in democracies and republics. Every constitution of every democracy or republic enshrines this right in unambiguous and direct language. The definition of an eligible voter has evolved over time, but always requires that a person be a ...

by Staff Writer While there have been great leaps forward in technology in all areas of life, fair and honest elections remain such a fundamental process to the success of our republic that the application of technology for expediency's sake must be examined with a jaundiced eye. All electronic voting machines and tabulation systems are subject to ...