The secretary of state race in Wyoming has narrowed to three candidates. During a debate hosted by Wyoming PBS, Wyoming Public Media and Cowboy State Daily, Republican Robert Short, Constitution Party candidate Tamara Trujillo and Democrat Bryan McCarty discussed their views on elections, data centers and legal challenges.
Trujillo defended the decision by current Secretary of State Chuck Gray to provide the U.S. Department of Justice with driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers of every registered Wyoming voter. She said she does not see “anything wrong with a little bit of oversight” and defended Gray’s actions, stating, “I’m not exactly sure what law he broke or what he did wrong if the courts didn’t find nothing to bring forth.”
Short and McCarty criticized handing over voter records, with Short emphasizing the need for data centers to be built in Wyoming. He said, “There’s been a lot of disinformation spread about data centers” and added, “in the next five years, we will double all of the data ever created in the history of the world.” “It has to go somewhere,” he said.
The candidates also diverged on the issue of fighting out-of-state court cases. Short and McCarty opposed using Wyoming tax dollars to challenge such cases, with Short stating, “I think it’s imperative that the secretary of state stay focused on the great state of Wyoming and what we do in Wyoming to help benefit the people of Wyoming.”
