Oklahoma HB 1072 has been postponed into 2010 by its sponsor. Oklahoma has two-year legislative sessions.

Even though the bill had passed both houses overwhelmingly, the legislature does not seem ready to pass a final version this year. HB 1072 lowers the number of signatures for a previously unqualified party to get on the ballot. No party, other than the Democratic or Republican Parties, has appeared on the ballot since 2000, and now none will appear in 2010 either. The constitutionality of Oklahoma’s independent presidential petition requirement is pending in the 10th circuit, in Barr v Zeriax.