On February 17, the Oklahoma Senate Rules Committee unanimously passed SB 1108, which removes the names of candidates for presidential elector from the November ballot. The only other states that still print the names of presidential elector candidates on the ballot are Arizona, Idaho, North Dakota, and South Dakota. None of those states let voters vote for individual candidates for presidential elector, so the information isn’t very meaningful. The Oklahoma bill says the names of the candidates for presidential elector will be posted at the polling place. Thanks to E. Zachary Knight for this news.

The same committee also passed SB 1016. It provides that the names of qualified parties should no longer be printed on voter registration forms. Instead there would only be a blank line for the question about political party membership. This bill is probably motivated by the desire to avoid having to reprint the voter registration forms every time a new party becomes qualified or ceases to be qualified.

On February 17, the Oklahoma State Senate Rules Committee unanimously passed SB 896, which eases the definition of “Political party” from a group that polled 10% for the office at the top of the ballot in the last election, to one that polled 2.5% for such offices. Thanks to E. Zachary Knight for this news.

The Senate Rules Committee has eleven members, and the Senate only has 48 members, so the fact that all eleven Senators on the Rules Committee voted for the bill is a good indication that the bill is likely the pass the full Senate.

According to this story, Pennsylvania election officials have rejected Willie Wilson’s petition to be listed on the Democratic presidential primary. The state says he has fewer than 2,000 signatures. Wilson is from Chicago and has qualified for Democratic presidential primary ballots in California, Louisiana, Missouri, South Carolina, and Texas.

Wilson tried and failed in two states so far this year, Ohio and Pennsylvania.