Oklahoma held primaries on June 26. Oklahoma requires that all qualified parties nominate by primary. The state also requires a runoff primary for races in which no one got as much as 50% in the first primary.
Here are the election returns, via the State Board of Elections’ web page. All three parties appear likely to need a runoff primary this year. The Libertarian Party only had one contested primary, for Governor. So far Chris Powell has 49%, Rex Lawhorn has 31%, and Joe Exotic has 19%.
The state elections web page has the solitary Libertarian primary race tucked underneath the Republican results, and just above the Democratic results. Oklahoma doesn’t permit write-ins, and when only a single candidate files for any primary, that office is removed from the ballot and the single candidate is deemed nominated.
Democrats will need a runoff for Corporation Commissioner, and Republicans will need a runoff for many statewide offices, including Governor.
More reasons to have NO primaries.
PR and AppV
Demo Rep…. No. It’s more of a reason to use instant run-off for single winner primaries. But you’re a brain dead dipshit, so I don’t expect your replies to any of the articles here to be logical, nor have any kind of critical thinking underlying your “argument”.
PR and AppV — pending Condorcet — for the dummies who do NOT pay attention.
The only mathematically perfect voting system is pure proportional representation (PPR) and there are no exceptions.
Under PPR we need the biggest team simultaneously elected as is possible, the bigger the better, to get things done swiftly as we think, vote and act as one.
Assemblies of 100, 250 and 1000 are among the sizes which work well, especially when calibrating up or down, the bigger the better with caps set by supply and demand.
The United Coalition has coincidentally been developing parliamentary procedures under PPR for the past twenty-three consecutive years and PPR works better than all others.
http://allpartysystem.com/one.php
I was 39 votes away from avoiding a run-off.
Congratulations Chris and congratulations OK voters for approving the medical marijuana initiative.
I read about it today in Oklahoma and I am enjoying the warm hospitality, friends and family, in Moffet and Dora OK today.