Oklahoma Ballot Order Lottery puts Libertarian Party on Top Line in November 2018 Election

On July 12, the Oklahoma State Board of Elections conducted its customary drawing to determine the order of parties on the November ballot. The Libertarian Party ended up with the top spot; Republicans are next; Democrats are third. Thanks to Chris Powell for this news.

The reason Oklahoma has a lottery for ballot position is that the Republican Party won a lawsuit against the old law back in the 1990’s. The old law said specifically that Democrats should always have the top line. Back then Oklahoma had a majority of Democrats in state government.


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Oklahoma Ballot Order Lottery puts Libertarian Party on Top Line in November 2018 Election — 14 Comments

  1. Another reason for a joint Donkey/Elephant PURGE of ALL minor parties and independents ???

    Ballots –

    half A-Z
    half Z-A

  2. The One Party system for ballot is by Alphabetical order by party/category.

    1/2 A to Z and 1/2 Z to A is an improvement on our ballot in 2019 Nor Can Mini-state Parliament that can be considered. In fact, the actual guideline item will apply to all world district voting.

    We are expected to approve the guidelines today as Nadine Squires [One], Mark Herd [Libertarian] and other One Party execs today.

  3. How many statewide candidates do they have? Any local candidates? Do they have a straight ticket device? It sounds like a lot of blank space at the top of the ballot to me.

  4. We had a teleconference call today and Mark Herd [Libertarian] agreed to rank Squires #1, himself #2 and me #3, plus he agreed to approve the One Party’s guidelines to include the 1/2 A to Z and 1/2 Z to A system, as part of our One Libertarian for US President team with the United Coalition.

    I will bring him to the California Green and he will bring me to the California Libertarian Party POTUS debates.

    All that, but he wants Vernon Supreme to run with our team, we approve.

    Not just because Mark Herd is a California State Libertarian Party executive, but because we allow all parties including Democratics.

    One Party virtual board room:

    http://allpartysystem.com/one.php

  5. Some higher tech regimes have A-Z letter-by-letter rotations–

    A first on some ballots, B first on some ballots, etc.

    IE each candidate has a code/location number for vote counts – regardless of location.

  6. It’s starting to seem like Demo Rep and James Ogle are just bots that auto-post once there is an additional response to the post.

  7. Slander (lies) is the only tool that despicable pluralists almost ever bring to the political conversation.

    The United Coalition brings unity by mathematical enumerated items, collaboration for the whole, items which are subject to perpetual votes of confidence and so the improvements are perpetual as the majority (50% plus 1 vote) voluntarily participates.

    The choice between slander and incremental improvements is clear.

    The United Coalition welcomes the accountability that gets spoken by the team while pluralists can only bring smack.

    The Libertarian One coalition for US President will try to find a female leader, we continue despite the degrading and demoralising attempts by pluralists to destroy the unity among us for our opposite gender ahead of ourselves.

    Two males are OK for President and Vice President but the United Coalition calls for 50/50 balance, and when 2/3rds of us voters on our team agree to rank our opposite gender #1 with consecutively alternating genders thereafter, we are mathematically guaranteed to elect the top female and top male (or visa versa), despite the degrading comments against unity by pluralists.

    Algebra is more advanced than addition and so eventually PPR will triumph over pluralism.

    http://www.allpartysystem.com/one.php

  8. Clay,

    “How many statewide candidates do they have?”
    We have two statewide candidates, Governor and State Auditor. Which is 2 out of 9 statewide elections on the November ballot. This is double the number of non-presidential statewide candidates we had in 2016.

    “Any local candidates?”
    I would have to do more research into city elections, but this is what we have: 1 US Congressional candidate out of 5 seats. 9 State House candidates.

    “Do they have a straight ticket device?”
    All recognized parties have a straight ticket device at the top of the ballot regardless of the number of candidates. We could have had no filed candidates and still have had a straight ticket device. This is required by Oklahoma law. However, it is one of the goals of Oklahomans for Ballot Access Reform to eliminate the straight ticket device and we have interest from several state law makers in doing just that before the 2020 elections.

    “It sounds like a lot of blank space at the top of the ballot to me.”
    If a party doesn’t have a candidate in a race, their line is not included in the final ballot for that race.

  9. In primaries and in non-partisan races Oklahoma rotates the names on the ballots. Bill Graves brought the suit to challenge the Democrat ballot primacy and he indicated at the time that he would have preferred a similar rotation in the general election as well instead of the ballot order drawing.

  10. One percent of the people who vote will vote for the first name on the ballot. Good for the LP.

  11. Too many bots (aka MORONS / HACKS) to count –

    who defend all the corrupt points in the current regimes –

    especially
    unequal ballot access laws and
    minority rule gerrymanders.

    Like the old time MORONS / HACKS who loved divine right of kings and titles of nobility —

    to keep those commoners under the control of the statist elites.

    See the King George III regime and his gangster oligarchs in 1761-1783.

    PR and AppV

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