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Just under 38% of Oklahoma voters who participated in the Nov. 5 election checked the option to vote straight party. Fewer Oklahomans used straight-party voting option in November election Skip to ...
North Carolina had an option for voting "straight party" (using the term from an NC ballot) that did not include a vote for the President and Vice President of the United States, through the 2012 elections. A voter ID law enacted in 2013 abolished all straight-ticket voting in the state, and went into effect in 2014.
Kirt is asking the Legislature to end an option that allows voters to simply check a box to select all candidates of a specific political affiliation
Two separate complaints came from Oklahoma and Cleveland counties. Election officials say workers were explaining how straight party voting works.
Oklahoma operates a modified closed primary system, in which only members of a given political party may vote in that party's primary and runoff primary elections. The system is "modified" in that the chairman of each political party may allow registered Independents to vote in that party's primary election, but is not required to do so.
Political analysts attributed the win to the nationalization of local politics and the prevalence of straight-ticket voting in the district, where 48% of Phillips's voters had marked "Republican" on the straight-party voting option. [8] The race was considered part of a trend of eastern Oklahoma voters shifting more Republican. [9]
Oklahoma voters retuned to the polls Tuesday to decide the fate of three state lawmakers forced into runoff elections.
November 2010 general election Proposal Passed YES votes YES % NO votes NO % Description State Question 744: No 189,164 18.59 828,589 81.41 mandated that the Oklahoma Legislature spend no less than the average amount spent by "neighboring states" (those states which border Oklahoma: Missouri, Texas, Kansas, Arkansas, Colorado and New Mexico) on "common education" (defined as grades pre ...