Sheridan Clash

Freelance & Investigative Reporting

2025.07.02

Noll Roberts

Do Wyoming's Presidential Elections have More Voters then are Registered?

Incomplete data suggests otherwise. "**This value is reflective of those individuals registered to vote by the close of business on the day before the Primary and General Elections. This number does not include election day registrations which are authorized as per W.S. 22-3-104."

Why isn't the data, for the table below, updated, by Wyoming's Secretary of State Office, showing post election registered voter numbers?

Statements
  1. The reported number of registered voters, are those registered to vote, by the close of the business day before the Primary or General Election.
  2. Wyoming's voter history dataset can be requested from the Secretary of State's Election Division at Elections@wyo.gov.
  3. Wyoming's voter history dataset, is exported to a file, on October 1st after the Primary election and on January 1st after the General election.
  4. The effective registration date is a column label.
  5. Making this column equal to the day of the election, voters that "effectively" registered on election day can be counted.
  6. Adding, pre-election and post-election day registered voters, results in the final registered voter count.
  7. The Office of the Secretary of State, periodically, purges the voter roll.
Questions
  1. Secretary Gray: Is the data and the calculations, stated above, accurate?
  2. Can the registered voter list, presently, be accessed by the public?
  3. Does this list account for all verified voters, added after the verification process, post election?
  4. Is there a concern about the fluctuations in our registered voter list?
  5. Does this purge, referenced above, account for the variations shown in the table below?
Legend

From Wyoming's Election Division, Wyoming's Voter Registration and Voter Turnout Statistics
Year Election Voting Age Population # of Registered Voters % of Voting Age Population Registered to Vote Voter Turnout Turnout of Voting Age Population Turnout of the Population Registered to Vote
2024 Primary 454,508 226,062 54 122,718 27.0 53.982
2024 General 454,508 256,251 56 271,123 59.7 105.859
2022 Primary 446,379 287,014 64 182,232 40.8 63.415
2022 General 446,379 297,639 67 198,198 44.4 66.667
2020 Primary 445,025 230,230 52 140,042 31.5 60.870
2020 General 445,025 268,837 60 278,503 62.6 103.731
2018 Primary 442,832 266,464 60 139,809 31.6 52.256
2018 General 442,832 276,696 62 205,275 46.4 74.275
2016 Primary 447,212 210,465 47 114,437 25.6 54.286
2016 General 447,212 240,809 54 258,788 57.9 107.500
2014 Primary 444,979 259,113 58 120,023 27.0 46.332
2014 General 444,979 264,930 60 171,153 38.5 64.773
2012 Primary 433,221 218,056 50 108,440 25.0 49.541
2012 General 433,221 240,438 56 250,701 57.9 104.167
2010 Primary 412,245 262,249 64 134,710 32.7 51.145
2010 General 412,245 270,083 66 190,822 46.3 70.370
2008 Primary 397,465 222,600 56 105,169 26.5 47.297
2008 General 397,465 244,818 62 256,035 64.4 104.918
2006 Primary 402,800 257,715 64 119,496 29.7 46.304
2006 General 402,800 263,083 65 196,217 48.7 74.525
2004 Primary 376,359 215,374 57 121,688 32.3 56.279
2004 General 376,359 232,396 62 245,789 65.3 105.603
2002 Primary 364,909 229,377 63 135,983 37.3 58.952
2002 General 364,909 241,200 66 188,028 51.5 78.008
2000 Primary 358,000 206,105 58 108,238 30.2 52.427
2000 General 358,000 220,012 61 221,685 61.9 100.455
1998 Primary 354,000 230,360 65 127,872 36.1 55.217
1998 General 354,000 239,539 68 178,401 50.4 74.477
1996 Primary 343,300 228,554 67 126,928 37.0 55.263
1996 General 343,300 240,711 70 215,844 62.9 89.583
1994 Primary 343,000 221,298 65 142,431 41.5 64.253
1994 General 343,000 237,836 69 204,023 59.5 86.076
1992 Primary 322,000 208,806 65 126,620 39.3 60.577
1992 General 322,000 234,260 73 203,602 63.2 86.752
1990 Primary 318,100 207,393 65 133,658 42.0 64.251
1990 General 318,100 222,331 70 164,309 51.7 73.874
1988 Primary 328,500 201,828 61 126,307 38.4 62.687
1988 General 328,500 226,189 69 186,417 56.7 82.301
1986 Primary 349,000 216,769 62 146,612 42.0 67.593
1986 General 349,000 235,292 67 168,651 48.3 71.489
1984 Primary 355,000 205,421 58 133,077 37.5 64.878
1984 General 355,000 239,974 68 196,153 55.3 82.008
1982 Primary 340,000 207,838 61 140,107 41.2 67.633
1982 General 340,000 230,074 68 172,065 50.6 74.783
1980 Primary 315,000 188,395 60 122,511 38.9 64.894
1980 General 315,000 219,423 70 181,027 57.5 82.648
1978 Primary 290,000 181,042 62 122,252 42.2 67.403
1978 General 290,000 200,951 69 142,299 49.1 71.000