Just after noon on primary election day, Chase Lorenz emerged from the Teton County Weed and Pest vote center, where the 46-year-old Hoback resident cast his ballot for Liz Cheney.
Lorenz, an independent, said he liked what she was doing: “prosecuting Trump.” But the five-year Teton County resident said he wasn’t as interested in other races on the Republican ballot.
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