Oklahoma has three qualified parties, Republican, Democratic, and Libertarian. In Oklahoma, all qualified parties nominate by primary. All parties are expected to tell the state whether they wish to let independent voters vote in their primaries. The decision is always made in early December of odd years. This year, the three parties retained the same rules they had in 2020. The Democratic Party will again let independents vote in their primaries; the Republican and Libertarian Parties will not. Thanks to Tony Roza for this news.
I can’t get over how wonderful it is to see the Libertarian Party is a qualified party in Oklahoma. It took a lot of hard work by a lot of people over years and decades to make that happen. Some of those people never got to see it. Ron Crickenberger comes to mind.
Scott, the trend indicates that we could hit 1% registration by the end of next year.
In relation to this particular post, we are shooting ourselves in the foot by keeping potential primaries closed and cutting ourselves off from the opportunity to reach out to unaffiliated voters.