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Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon signed a bill into law Tuesday that will require residents to show some form of identification when voting in person in the next election.
While some state Democrats criticized the bill as voter suppression, state Rep. Chuck Gray, a Republican, called it a victory for the citizens of Wyoming, according to the Cowboy State Daily. It is a necessary function of our Republic to provide our citizens with confidence that our elections are secure, fair, and valid, he said. I am proud that we were able to meet this important milestone for Wyoming. Gray was a sponsor of the bill.
As a restless nation took to the streets for police reform in 2020, then-statehouse-candidate Karlee Provenza a Laramie Democrat traveled the streets of Wyoming’s third-largest city on a campaign of her own.
A PhD candidate in criminal justice at the University of Wyoming, Provenza had a personal relationship with the national conversation on redefining law enforcement. In the wake of the controversial police-involved shooting of mentally ill man Robbie Ramirez in her community in 2018, Provenza organized a police reform group, Albany County for Proper Policing.
On the campaign trail, Provenza pitched voters on a promise of not only delivering a progressive and working-class perspective to the Legislature, but on helping to reform the very thing that spurred her own activism: what she considers an oversight in the system. That oversight, she said, allows officers with patterns of misconduct elsewhere to serve in Wyoming.
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