Pre-registration can improve Oklahoma’s dismal turnout by young voters (Guest Post: Matt Hecox)

Matt Hecox is an OK Policy Research Fellow in the Master of Public Administration program at the University of Oklahoma. Hecox has previously worked as a legislative assistant for the Oklahoma House of Representatives during the 2014 legislative session and… Read more [More...]

More ballot access reform is the best way to address historic low voter turnout (Guest post: Chris Powell)

Chris Powell is past chair of the Oklahoma Libertarian Party. Fewer people voted in the 2014 Oklahoma gubernatorial election than have participated in any election for governor in this state since 1978, when the population was about 900,000 people smaller.… Read more [More...]

Settlement will help help more Oklahomans vote

Low voter turnout is a serious problem in Oklahoma, as we’ve discussed previously in issue briefs and blog posts. Most recently, just one in three eligible voters in Oklahomans went to the polls in the 2014 mid-term election. Electoral disengagement… Read more [More...]

Grim and Grimmer: Voter turnout hits all-time lows

Every two years, the U.S. Census Bureau issues a report on voter participation in the most recent elections based on a national survey conducted the previous November. The news from this year’s report ain’t pretty. Fewer Americans voted in the… Read more [More...]

Where women are winning political office in Oklahoma

In a new report from the Center for American Progress on the Health of State Democracies, Oklahoma was awarded a D+ across the board for ballot accessibility, a representative state government, and average citizens’ influence on the political system. These… Read more [More...]

Where are they now? Bills we followed this session (Part 2)

Last week on the blog, we talked about what happened with key bills related to education and criminal justice in this year’s legislative session. In this post, we’ll look at what happened around tax breaks, elections reform, and attempts to… Read more [More...]

Should Oklahoma adopt all voting-by-mail elections? (Guest Post: Cassidy Hamilton)

Cassidy Hamilton is one of the 2014-2015 OK Policy Research Fellows. Cassidy graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Economics and is currently pursuing a Masters of Public Administration at the University of Oklahoma. She has also contributed a… Read more [More...]

Voting Information and Resources

Oklahoma State Election Board Home Page Find your Polling Place 2014 Oklahoma Election Results (State Election Board) 2014 Election Resources (OK Policy) League of Women Voters Vote 411 Voter Information (Register to Vote, Request Absentee Ballot, Early Voting, etc.) Election… Read more [More...]

The misleading myth of voter fraud in American elections (Guest Post: Lorraine Minnite)

Lorraine Minnite is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Director, Undergraduate Urban Studies Program at Rutgers University – Camden. She is a member of the Scholars Strategy Network Working Group on Expanding and Protecting the Right to Vote. This is… Read more [More...]

The many benefits of online voter registration (Guest post: Rachael V. Cobb)

Rachael V. Cobb is Associate Professor of Government and Chair of the Government Department, Suffolk University. She is a member of the Scholars Strategy Network Working Group on Expanding and Protecting the Right to Vote. This is an edited version… Read more [More...]