Oklahoma State Senator Ron Justice (R-Chickasha) has introduced SB 1108. It would allow the State Election Board authority to leave candidates for presidential elector off the ballot. Instead, a list of presidential elector candidates would be posted in each polling place.

Oklahoma is one of only five states that still prints the names of all presidential elector candidates on the ballot. The others are Arizona, Idaho, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Long ago all states printed the names of the candidates for elector on the ballot, and let voters vote for individual electors. The last state to let voters vote for particular candidates for president elector was Vermont, in 1976.

Leaving the electors off the ballot simplifies the ballot and makes it somewhat shorter. The Oklahoma Election Board supports this bill. Thanks to E. Zachary Knight for this news.