Posted on 11/12/2025 9:11:19 AM PST by simpson96
Those advocating to replace Oklahoma’s election process with a California-style “open primary” include campaign contributors to the Democratic presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, as well as a range of other left-wing candidates in Oklahoma, records show.
Oklahoma’s current election system allows Republican voters to pick Republican nominees in party primaries while Democratic voters do the same in their party’s primaries, with the two parties’ candidates then facing off in the November general election along with any independent candidates who file for an office.
But under the proposed State Question 836, all Oklahoma candidates—Democrats, Republicans, and independents—would be placed on a single ballot with all voters participating. The two candidates receiving the most votes would then proceed to the November general election, even if they are both members of the same political party.
That would largely mirror California elections, where voters’ November choices are often limited to two members of the same party, and even statewide races have involved only two Democratic candidates.
An initiative-petition effort is underway to collect 172,993 valid signatures to place SQ 836 on the ballot in Oklahoma.
Proponents are now planning a “cocktail reception for open primaries in support of Vote Yes 836” to help bankroll the effort. The event will be held on Nov. 18 at the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club.
The invitation lists several hosts, many of whom are prominent campaign contributors to Democratic candidates or supporters of left-wing causes.
(Excerpt) Read more at ocpathink.org ...
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That way they can select the Republican candidate by crossing over.
The commie DemonRATS changing the rules again to make a red state into a toilet water blue state.
Don’t Californicate Oklahoma!
That way they can ELIMINATE the Republican candidate by voting for two Democrats...............
Even the craphole state of NY has closed primaries- then again i guess they don’t want people like me helping to elect the rt candidate...
It’s a bad idea.
In politics though, the worse an idea is the more likely it is to become law.
Oh, hell NO!
The Democrats ran Oklahoma for almost a hundred years. They “ran it into the ground.” They loved it the way it was, until they can’t win even a race for dogcatcher.
The only ones who don’t know this is GWB and Rove.
I found this from a clearly left wing site:
https://openprimaries.org/rules-in-your-state/
They are targeting every Red State.
Notice CA is a closed state.
The Oklahoman
https://www.oklahoman.com › story › news › politics › 2025 › 09 › 16 › oklahoma-supreme-court-rules-state-question-846-open-primaries › 86185719007
Campaign to change Oklahoma’s primary elections can move forward, state ...
Sep 16, 2025
Oklahoma has a so-called “closed” primary system, in which only registered members of a political party can vote in their party’s primary. Oklahoma’s Democratic Party has, in recent elections, allowed voters registered as independent to vote in its primaries, but the Republican Party has not.
RATS don’t do anything “open.”
It is a Leftist attempt to use subterfuge to deny voters the recognition of what ideologies a candidate is connected to, which is what party designation helps to do. By denying and hiding party designation the Left gets voters to pretend the candidate’s underlying political ideology is not important (as in, you don’t need to know).
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