In Wyo House race, murky divisions in election rhetoric

A man named Layne hollered out the question, which echoed through the big back room at the Hangar Bar and Grill in Bar Nunn. 

“What do we need to do to bring back voter integrity in order to avoid voter fraud, like we totally saw in the last election?” he asked.  

Cheyenne attorney Harriet Hageman, who is campaigning to challenge incumbent U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, retorted that she sees voting administration as a state issue. “I do not want to federalize our elections,” Hageman told the crowd on the evening of March 14. 

Over the next three minutes, Hageman lauded “incredibly important” election reforms like Wyoming’s requirement that voters present a form of photo identification. The 59-year-old former gubernatorial candidate bemoaned the recent death of a crossover voting bill that would have prohibited registered Democrats from day-of party switching to vote Republican in the Aug. 16 primary election. She called for an investigation into Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s investments in getting out the vote for the November 2020 election and told attendees of the town hall-style meeting she’s been in talks with experts to determine how to make American elections safe and secure.