Jul 24, 2026 · 25 min · 7 segments
Wyoming’s upcoming election changes take aim at a rare record of voter fraud. A measles outbreak in Grand Teton National Park could be linked to a cultural shift of 30 years ago. Electricity comes to…
Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray continues to share concerns about election integrity.
The process is even more transparent for those who come to see some equipment testing.
That was reassuring to a handful of residents who came to a recent Teton County demo.
Any which way the ballot will go in goes in.
Collection workers glove up in the windowless basement of the Teton County Administration Building.
They feed reams of test ballots into what look like small refrigerators on wheels.
Sealed with red and blue zip ties, the machines contain a computer, scanner, and printer, plus a drop box.
They're surprisingly resistant to the workers' attempts to jam them.
And if you start running a lot of those ballots, it kind of like dries your hands and you will get really bad paper cuts with them.
Julian Haas, a Teton County Democratic Party secretary, shows up first.
Am I really the only civilian here?
He's a little disappointed with the five-person turnout, though that's more than in past years.
Some who may believe that there is election tampering or whatever should actually be here to realize that it's not possible and it doesn't happen.
Teton County Clerk Mo Murphy says this year her staff are adjusting to some new voting laws.
But this test happens each election year in each county as required by state statute.
One change this year, clerks must post the test deck results online.
Which is a little tricky because we need to make sure it's very far away from any sort of other election results.
Another change? Staff will hand-count 5% of ballots within nine days of the election to double-check the machines.
Murphy and her staff started testing more than 1,000 pages of sample ballots weeks before the August 18 primary.
We have to do this regardless if you guys are here or not.
Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray continues to share concerns about election integrity.
The process is even more transparent for those who come to see some equipment testing.
That was reassuring to a handful of residents who came to a recent Teton County demo.
Any which way the ballot will go in goes in.
Collection workers glove up in the windowless basement of the Teton County Administration Building.
They feed reams of test ballots into what look like small refrigerators on wheels.
Sealed with red and blue zip ties, the machines contain a computer, scanner, and printer, plus a drop box.
They're surprisingly resistant to the workers' attempts to jam them.
And if you start running a lot of those ballots, it kind of like dries your hands and you will get really bad paper cuts with them.
Julian Haas, a Teton County Democratic Party secretary, shows up first.
Am I really the only civilian here?
He's a little disappointed with the five-person turnout, though that's more than in past years.
Some who may believe that there is election tampering or whatever should actually be here to realize that it's not possible and it doesn't happen.
Teton County Clerk Mo Murphy says this year her staff are adjusting to some new voting laws.
But this test happens each election year in each county as required by state statute.
One change this year, clerks must post the test deck results online.
Which is a little tricky because we need to make sure it's very far away from any sort of other election results.
Another change? Staff will hand-count 5% of ballots within nine days of the election to double-check the machines.
Murphy and her staff started testing more than 1,000 pages of sample ballots weeks before the August 18 primary.
We have to do this regardless if you guys are here or not.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.
