The Oklahoma Democratic Party will hold a state meeting on Saturday, July 25, and will vote on whether to let independents vote in their 2016 primary. Under the U.S. Supreme Court decision Tashjian v Republican Party of Connecticut, issued in 1986, any party with a government-administered primary has the right to decide for itself whether to let independents vote in its primaries. States cannot interfere. Neither Oklahoma major party has ever before let independents vote in its primaries, although the Libertarian Party allowed independents to vote in its primaries in 2000 and 1996.

On June 24, the New York legislature passed SB 5958. It moves the presidential primaries from February 2 to April 19. Thanks to Josh Putnam for this news.

According to this story, the forces that put a top-two initiative on the ballot in Arizona in 2012 will try again in 2016. The story does not say if the 2016 proposal will differ in any way from the 2012 initiative. The 2012 initiative was defeated by a two-to-one margin. Arizona already lets independent voters vote in partisan primaries, and they need not join a party in order to do that.