Following Trump-endorsed far-right asshole state House Rep Chuck Gray’s win in the Wyoming Republican Secretary of State primary last month, which guaranteed he will be serving in the office come January as the Dems didn’t field a candidate (who would not have won anyway, let’s be honest), several Republican state lawmakers are so unnerved by the shit the maniac says they now are working to remove the position’s ability to oversee elections in the state, NPR reports.
Probably realizing that Gray’s “election integrity” batshittery would affect the outcomes of not just general elections, which Dems usually lose, but GOP primaries, the state House chair of the Joint Corporations, Elections, and Political Subdivisions Committee, Rep Dan Zwonitzer filed a bill to create a separate state elections commission, similar to that of Wisconsin’s. It passed the committee by voice vote and will hit the floor next month. “We may be in a precarious position when it comes to election administration for the next four years. And I would feel more confident and comfortable, personally, having a separate operating agency of government made up of all five statewide elected officials who oversee a director of an office of elections,” Zwonitizer said.
Republican Rep Brian Boner was stiff in his resistance, saying “I do understand some of the concerns,” Boner said. “I think Rep. Gray might have a hard time delivering on any of the promises that he made during the campaign season. But we also need to acknowledge the results of the election as well,” whatever the hell that means. Gray plans to ban all ballot drop boxes, fire every Secretary of State’s office employee who doesn’t “share his vision,” force voters to use paper ballots, and probably implement a whole shit ton of other terrible ideas.