Wyoming secretary of state candidate: Buchanan not eligible for office [View all]
CHEYENNE – The Libertarian candidate for Wyoming Secretary of State filed a petition earlier this month accusing the current secretary of holding the office illegally because he is a licensed lawyer.
Howard “Kit” Carson wrote in a petition that Secretary of State Ed Buchanan is violating the law by holding office as an “officer of the court.”
“He is asking the Supreme Court to obey … five laws ‘on the books,’ both federal and in the Wyoming Constitution, prohibiting any officers of the court(s), meaning judges and lawyers, to be elected to any government offices,” a news release from the Libertarian Party of Wyoming states.
But Buchanan is far from the only lawyer holding public office in Wyoming.
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