Surrogate votes are the same thing as absentee ballots..

[Henhouse]

http://www.wyodems.org/frequently-asked-questions

Frequently Asked Questions | Wyoming Democrats

7. What if I am unable to attend the county caucuses?
If an attendee is unable to attend their county caucus due to:
Religious Observance
Military Service
Disability
Illness
Work Schedule
Student studying abroad
then they may submit a surrogate form to the state party. The deadline for surrogate forms to be received is April 1st- since this deadline is past the form is no longer available.

[Lucinda]

1. I'm glad they have them. All caucus states should.

[DURHAM D]

8. Absolutely.

The inability of people to vote absentee in caucus states is a disgrace.

[bobbobbins01]

2. It sort of flies in the face of caucusing though.

Since there is the whole realignment business, which can't happen with absentees. All the more reason to trash caucuses and go with open primaries across the board imo.

[femmedem]

3. But there needs to be a specific reason why the voter couldn't attend the caucus.

Not feeling like it isn't a legal reason--even though I think we should all be able to vote by mail.

Perhaps the Clinton campaign was able to obtain lists of people who had obtained absentee ballots in the past due to disability, for example. If so, congratulations to them for being well organized. However, if they just called people and told anyone who said they weren't planning on attending that they could submit an absentee ballot instead, that would not be legit.

[northernsouthern]

7. We had them in WA too.

I think they try to use them liberally. They are not absentee ballots at all, they are hardship ballots. But they are lax in the way they are enforced. We had more Hillary ones where we were than Bernie, but we only had three Hillary supporters present and one was person dressed in a suit that could not speak English and was only there for two seconds. I helped him drop off his ballot, but when I was talking to him he acted very nervous and then left very quickly. Never seen anything like it. I think our hardship ones had to be turned in to the office the day before to be counted.

[Nanjeanne]

4. Interesting that 100% of the entire # were for Hillary. But whatever . . . Sanders Won!

[geek tragedy]

5. he didn't win anything, it's a tie in delegates nt

[Cheese Sandwich]

6. wow Wyoming Dems have the coolest logo of anyone