On April 8, the Oklahoma Senate Rules Committee amended HB 2181, the bill easing ballot access for newly-qualifying parties. The bill as passed by the House sets the petition at 1% of the last gubernatorial vote. As amended by the Senate Rules Committee, the bill is 3% of the last gubernatorial vote. The amended bill then passed the Committee 11-1.
3% of the last gubernatorial vote would be 24,745 valid signatures. Even if the bill is signed into law in this form, Oklahoma would still be the only state in the nation with no method to get on the November ballot for President (outside of the two major parties) that is at or below 2% of the last gubernatorial vote.
The existing law requires 41,242 signatures for 2016, and required 66,744 signatures for 2014. Thanks to E. Zachary Knight for the news.
I think Jill Stein should go for it!
Filing fees is am option that should be made in all elections. Major parties don’t support such, as it would being us a fairer election process.