The Oklahoma Democratic Party will hold a state meeting on Saturday, July 25, and will vote on whether to let independents vote in their 2016 primary. Under the U.S. Supreme Court decision Tashjian v Republican Party of Connecticut, issued in 1986, any party with a government-administered primary has the right to decide for itself whether to let independents vote in its primaries. States cannot interfere. Neither Oklahoma major party has ever before let independents vote in its primaries, although the Libertarian Party allowed independents to vote in its primaries in 2000 and 1996.