Both Independent Political Report and Free & Equal are publicizing contact information for Oklahoma legislators who are on the conference committee for the ballot access bill, HB 1072. See here for the IPR post. Don’t feel that just because you don’t live in Oklahoma, you shouldn’t communicate with these legislators. The huge ballot access problem in Oklahoma is for President, and every American is injured when presidential candidates can’t get on the ballot in any part of the U.S.
Remember, Oklahoma voters in both the 2004 election, and the 2008 election, either voted Democratic, Republican, or they couldn’t vote at all for President, not even a write-in vote. There is no other state that has imposed such cruel restrictions on its voters in two presidential elections in a row, unless one goes back to Oklahoma itself for the period 1948 through 1964, or Nevada 1928-1944, or South Dakota 1952-1964, or Hawaii 1960-1964. Although Louisiana had bad ballot access laws in the period 1920-1944, at least back then it permitted write-ins.
14th Amdt, Sec. 2 is still a part of the nearly DEAD U.S.A. Constitution — regarding write-in votes.
If Oklahoma is not graphically less Gerrymandered than say Kansas and or Missouri, then [like most of the politicians in 21st Century America] contact is a complete waste of time!
One thing is for sure, we can count on Sen. Brogdon to vote for any ballot access improvement.
#3. Since present law so bad, Sen. Brogdon’s vote for any improvement is low-risk of blowback from his own party. Three percent of the last Governor’s vote IS better than five percent of the last Presidential vote, but it’s still lipstick on a pig of a law.
#2 ALL party hack gerrymander control freaks are party hack ROBOTS from outer space or Hell — take your pick.
Making ANY contact with them about REAL political reforms is a TOTAL waste of time and effort — absent a TOTAL crisis.
See the TOTAL budget crisis in CA that got the de facto USELESS top 2 primary proposal on the June, 2010 CA ballots.
The deficit CRISIS is coming — to make ALL prior stuff seem quite trivial.