The Oklahoma State Election Board has released new voter registration data. The percentages: Republican 45.61%; Democratic 39.71%; independent and miscellaneous 14.52%; Libertarian .17%.
At the January 15, 2016 tally, the percentages were: Republican 43.65%; Democratic 43.48%; independent and miscellaneous 12.88%. There was no Libertarian tally at that time. The state started tallying Libertarians for the first time this year in April, when there were 344 Libertarians. Now there are 3,599 Libertarians. The state is still tallying Americans Elect, and there are eleven voters registered that way. Those voters will soon be converted to independents, no matter what those voters want.
The legislature passed SB 1019 in 2016, authorizing the State Election Board to remove the names of all parties from the voter registration form. The applicant would write in the name of the desired party. However, the bill doesn’t require the Board to remove the names of parties, and the Board has chosen to keep the names of the qualified parties on the form.
Some county’s in Oklahoma are still majority Democratic voter registration wise.North east Oklahoma for example still elect Democrats on the county level.I t will be interesting to see how many of those people will actually vote.
The highest number of registered Libertarians previously was 770 in January of 2000.
Correction, there were 875 registered Libertarians in 1981.
Damn good news for us libertarians. After the election if one of the tyrants win we should make a huge advertising push to get people to change their registration to show their dissatisfaction either way.
I hope a Green Party forms in Oklahoma.