On April 2, the Oklahoma House Judiciary Committee passed SB 668 unanimously. It has no effect on the number of signatures needed for a newly-qualifying party in presidential years. But it lowers the number in midterm years, so that if the bill becomes law, the two types of years will have an equal signature burden (5% of the last gubernatorial vote).
The bill is now three-fourths of the way through the legislature. Thanks to E. Zachary Knight for this news.
I have been told by one of the House Speaker’s assistants that Ballot Access Reform was not a priority for the speaker. That is why HB2134 never got a floor vote. So the question at this point is “Is ballot access reform in general not a priority with SB668 being denied a vote or just the reform as written in HB2134?”
We will see in the next couple of weeks.