Category: State Election Official (currently serving election denier)
Role: Wyoming Secretary of State (January 2023 – present); First in line for governorship
Priority: P1 (State election official; election denier; first in Wyoming succession)

Role

Chuck Gray serves as Wyoming Secretary of State, controlling Wyoming’s election administration, business registration, and voter database management. Wyoming has no lieutenant governor, making the secretary of state first in line to the governorship—giving Gray additional constitutional significance.

Background

Gray is a former Wyoming state representative who won the Republican nomination for Secretary of State in August 2022 with Trump’s backing. He ran unopposed in the November 2022 general election and won with 91.57% of the vote. He falsely claimed the 2020 presidential election was “illegitimate.”

Documented Actions

1. “Illegitimate” 2020 Election Claims (2020–2022)

SourceABC News, “Trump-backed election denier wins GOP nod to be Wyoming secretary of state,” 2022; NPR, “Wyoming Republicans try to curtail Trump-endorsed Chuck Gray,” September 8, 2022Evidence: Gray is an election denier who falsely claimed the 2020 presidential election was “illegitimate.” This claim contradicts Wyoming’s own 2020 election results, which Trump won by nearly 44 percentage points (69.9% to 26.6%), and the results of every other state confirmed through recounts, audits, and litigation.

Pattern: Election denial contradicting overwhelming evidence

2. “2000 Mules” Screenings and Voter Suppression Proposals (2022)

Evidence: Gray campaigned on election integrity concerns, hosting screenings of “2000 Mules,” a film promoting false claims about ballot box stuffing. He proposed to:

• Ban ballot drop boxes
• Require all paper ballots
• Institute mandatory hand-counted audits
• Make ballot harvesting a felony

SourceNPR, “Wyoming Republicans try to curtail Trump-endorsed Chuck Gray,” September 8, 2022; Cowboy State Daily, “Candidate Profile: Chuck Gray For Wyoming Secretary of State,” August 15, 2022These proposals would reduce voting access, particularly in rural Wyoming where voters rely on drop boxes and absentee ballots due to geographic distance from polling places.

Pattern: Voter suppression through access reduction; promoting election conspiracy films

3. Republican Attempts to Curtail His Power (2022)

Evidence: Gray’s nomination raised alarm among some Wyoming Republicans who worried about his views on elections. Republican state Rep. Dan Zwonitzer expressed concern that Gray “could damage how Wyoming runs its elections” and proposed legislation to remove the secretary of state’s ability to oversee elections, instead creating a separate elections office.

SourceNPR, “Wyoming Republicans try to curtail Trump-endorsed Chuck Gray,” September 8, 2022This extraordinary step—Wyoming Republicans attempting to strip their own party’s nominee of election oversight powers—demonstrates how extreme Gray’s election denial was considered even within his own party.

Pattern: Own party attempting to limit his election control due to extremism

4. Currently Serving; First in Line for Governorship (2023–present)

SourceWikipedia, “2022 Wyoming Secretary of State election”; ABC News, “Trump-backed election denier wins GOP nod to be Wyoming secretary of state,” 2022Evidence: Gray continues to serve as Wyoming Secretary of State and is first in line to the governorship since Wyoming has no lieutenant governor. This succession position makes Gray’s election denial particularly dangerous—if Wyoming’s governor cannot serve, an election denier would become governor.

Pattern: Election denier in office with path to governorship

Pattern Analysis

This profile documents election denial, voter suppression, promoting election conspiracy theories, and own party attempting to limit his power—within the scope of the public-corruption-ombudsman skill.

Related profiles: wes-allen-profile (Alabama secretary of state election denier), diego-morales-profile (Indiana secretary of state with violations)

Related skills: fourteenth-amendment-legal-expert (equal protection in voting access), fifth-amendment-legal-expert (due process in election administration)

Severity Assessment

Immediate harm: High — Currently controls Wyoming election administration; first in line for governorship
Democratic erosion: High — Election denier in office; own party tried to strip his election powers
Authoritarian marker: “Illegitimate” election claims; “2000 Mules” promoter; drop box bans

Accountability Status

Current status: Active (serving as Wyoming Secretary of State; first in gubernatorial succession)

Legal exposure:

• Fourteenth Amendment violations: Voter suppression through drop box and absentee voting restrictions

Congressional oversight: None (state official)

State oversight:

• Wyoming voters (next election)
• Wyoming Legislature (attempted to remove election powers)

Public accountability:

• Own party members criticizing his election views
• Attempts to create separate elections office to bypass him

Cross-References

Skills: public-corruption-ombudsman, fourteenth-amendment-legal-expert, fifth-amendment-legal-expert
Related profiles: wes-allen-profile, diego-morales-profile
Topics: Wyoming secretary of state, election denialism, 2000 Mules, ballot drop box bans, hand-counted audits, gubernatorial succession, Trump endorsement, paper ballot requirements, ballot harvesting

Investigative trail pointers (public records)

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For Trump Supporters: Questions Worth Considering

Governors are among the most powerful elected officials in the country — controlling state budgets, appointing agency heads, directing state law enforcement, and setting the political tone for millions of Americans.

The question every voter should ask of their governor, regardless of party: Is this official putting the interests of the state’s residents first — or the interests of a national political movement, party donors, or their own political future?

Here’s a question worth sitting with: If a Democratic governor had taken the same actions documented in this profile — the same policy decisions, the same use of state resources, the same relationships with donors or national figures — would you consider that acceptable? If not, then the standard shouldn’t change because of party affiliation.

Holding all elected officials to the same standard is what accountability means. It’s not partisan to ask whether your governor is delivering results for the people who elected them. It’s the most basic question in a democracy.

A second question: The promises made during a campaign versus the actual record in office — do they match? Looking at the documented actions in this profile, ask yourself whether the outcomes delivered for working people in this state reflect the priorities that got this official elected.

You elected them. You have every right to ask whether they’re working for you.

Sources

1. ABC News, “Trump-backed election denier wins GOP nod to be Wyoming secretary of state,” 2022. https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-backed-election-denier-wins-gop-nod-wyoming/story?id=88470184
2. NPR, “Wyoming Republicans try to curtail Trump-endorsed Chuck Gray,” September 8, 2022. https://www.npr.org/2022/09/08/1121756234/wyoming-secretary-of-state-chuck-gray-trump-endorsement
3. Wikipedia, “2022 Wyoming Secretary of State election.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Wyoming_Secretary_of_State_election
4. Wyoming Public Media, “In a tight race, Chuck Gray comes out as winner for Secretary of State Republican nomination,” August 16, 2022. https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/politics-government/2022-08-16/in-a-tight-race-chuck-gray-comes-out-as-winner-for-secretary-of-state-republican-nomination
5. Cowboy State Daily, “Candidate Profile: Chuck Gray For Wyoming Secretary of State,” August 15, 2022. https://cowboystatedaily.com/2022/08/15/candidate-profile-secretary-of-state-candidate-chuck-gray/

Last Updated: May 11, 2026
Profile Status: Active monitoring — HIGH PRIORITY for ongoing election administration and gubernatorial succession
Next Review: Quarterly (August 2026)