Title 22 · WY

15-1-101(a)(xiv);

Citation: Wyo. Stat. § 15-1-101

Section: 15-1-101

15-1-101(a)(xiv);

(xx) "Political action committee" means any group of two (2) or more persons organized and associated for the purpose of raising, collecting or spending money for use in the aid of, or otherwise influencing or attempting to influence, directly or indirectly, the election or defeat of candidates for public office, candidate's committees, or political parties, for support of or opposition to any initiative or referendum petition drive or for the adoption or defeat of any ballot proposition;

(xxi) "Political subdivision" includes any county, city, town, school district, community college district, hospital district, water conservancy district, cemetery district, fire protection district, or any other political subdivision of the state constituting a body corporate, whether incorporated under general act, special charter, or otherwise;

(xxii) "Pollbook" means a book, or hardware, software or any combination thereof commonly referred to as an electronic pollbook, used in a polling place on election day containing information specified by law;

(xxiii) "Poll list" is the list of registered voters as compiled by the clerk for use by election judges at the polls. The poll list shall:

(A) Include the names and residence addresses of electors registered in the precinct;

(B) Indicate the precinct and various districts in which each elector resides;

(C) Indicate political party affiliation of the electors, if any;

(D) Indicate which electors have registered by mail and must show identification; (E) Indicate which electors have submitted absentee ballots in the election prior to the printing of the poll list;

(F) Provide for the notation of:

(I) A sequential number for each elector voting at the polls;

(II) Electors who cast provisional ballots;

(III) Electors who cast absentee ballots if the absentee ballots are processed and counted at the polls;

(IV) Electors who change political party affiliation at the polls.

(G) Provide for the recording of the same information for electors who register at the polls;

(H) Provide other space as required for election management purposes.

(xxiv) "Poll watcher" means a person certified by the county chairman of a political party to observe voter turn out and registration. A "poll watcher" is not an election official;

(xxv) "Provisional party" means a political organization which has filed a legally valid petition as provided under article 4 of chapter 4 of this code. The filing of a legally valid petition entitles the provisional party to participate in the next general election. If the provisional party's candidate for any one (1) of the offices of the United States house of representatives, governor or secretary of state, receives not less than two percent (2%) of the total votes cast for that office in that election, the provisional party does not lose party status;

(xxvi) "Qualified elector" includes every citizen of the United States who is a bona fide resident of Wyoming, has been a bona fide resident of Wyoming for not less than thirty (30) days before the date of the election at which he offers to vote, has registered to vote and will be at least eighteen (18) years of age on the day of the election at which he may offer to vote. No person is a qualified elector who is a currently adjudicated mentally incompetent person, or who has been convicted of a felony and his civil or voting rights have not been restored. A literacy test shall not be imposed as a condition to voting in any election;

(xxvii) "Registration" is the entry and verification of the name, residence, citizenship and voter information of a qualified elector on the official registry list, as provided in W.S. 22-3-104(f) and 22-3-108;

(xxviii) "Registry agent" is a county clerk, his deputies, a tribal clerk, his deputies, a city clerk, his deputies, and an election judge during any election specified in W.S. 22-2-101(a)(i) through (viii);

(xxix) "Registry list" is the list by precinct of the names, addresses, party affiliations, unique identifying numbers generated by the state, information relating to absentee ballot status, registration dates and precinct and district numbers of the registered electors in the county prepared by the secretary of state or county clerks for distribution as provided in W.S.