On March 5, the Oklahoma Senate passed SB 76 by 27-18. It increases candidate filing fees. U.S. House rises from $500 to $1,500; legislature from $200 to $400; U.S. Senate from $750 to $2,000; most state executive statewide offices from $200 to $1,000.
In Oklahoma, under current law, candidates who don’t pay the filing fee must submit a petition of 5% of the voters, a task that would cost far more than any of the filing fees, new or old. The bill doesn’t change this petition in lieu of filing fee. Thanks to Richard Prawdzienski for this news.
Will the robot party hack incumbents balance their state budgets by raising the filing fees into the $$$ BILLIONS ???
Stay tuned.
Well crud.
Excellent. The Peoples’ Republic of Oklahoma is moving from a Marxist state to a plutocracy. They just need to get those filing fees much higher, say $10 million for dogcatcher und so weiter.