Topic: Voting & Elections

Here are our top priorities for Oklahoma’s 2016 legislative session

By: David Blatt
February 4, 2016 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Over 1,700 bills and resolutions have been introduced for the 2016 legislative session, along with an equal number of measures from last session that remain alive and could still be considered this year. Despite the  plethora of legislation, there is… Read more [More...]

Women are severely underrepresented in leadership of state agencies (Guest Post: Alexandra Bohannon)

By: Guest
January 11, 2016 // Updated: May 2, 2019
Alexandra Bohannon is an OK Policy Research Fellow. She is currently a second-year student in the Master of Public Administration program with a concentration in public policy at the University of Oklahoma. Alexandra works as a Graduate Research Assistant for… Read more [More...]

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

By: Guest
January 5, 2016 // Updated: May 2, 2019
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)

By: Guest
November 10, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
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

By: David Blatt
August 20, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
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

By: David Blatt
August 12, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
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

By: Gene Perry
July 14, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
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)

By: Gene Perry
June 22, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
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)

By: Guest
May 18, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
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

By: Gene Perry
April 25, 2015 // Updated: May 2, 2019
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...]