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Oklahoma Primary 2026: BatesLine ballot card
In-person absentee voting will be available at your county's early voting locations on Thursday, June 10, 2026, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., on Friday, June 11, 2026, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., and on Saturday, June 12, 2026, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tulsa County will have...
Primary 2026: Final thoughts
There's always more to say than time to write, so here are some final loosely organized notes and thoughts on the 2026 Oklahoma Republican primary. A politically involved friend texted to ask, "Have you ever in your time in Tulsa seen political campaigns so dark and nasty?" It's been a...
The sprint for the 1st District
Markwayne Mullin's appointment as Secretary of Homeland Security set off a series of electoral dominoes. As Congressman Kevin Hern opted to seek Mullin's Senate seat, a dozen candidates filed to succeed Hern in the 1st District. Dan Rooney dropped out after President Trump endorsed another candidate, leaving 11. If you're...
The case against Charles McCall
Oklahoma primaries with more than two candidates often result in a runoff. If candidate gets more than 50% of the vote at the June primary election, the top two candidates will advance to an August runoff. It doesn't matter how close 3rd place is behind 2nd place, it wouldn't matter...
The case against Gentner Drummond
This is a year of open seats in Oklahoma. Statewide incumbents are either term-limited or seeking higher offices. Some races have drawn nearly a dozen candidates. The likelihood is that most of these races will result in a two-candidate runoff. The question is whether conservatives will have someone worth voting...
Colleen McCarty: Democrat for nearly 17 years, Republican for 1.7 years
Steve Kunzweiler, the incumbent Tulsa County District Attorney, has been recognized as a Certified Republican by the Oklahoma Republican Party. This means he's been a registered Republican voter for at least five years, has not contributed to a Democrat candidate within five years, and is in agreement with at least...
A guide to Tulsa & Pawnee County Judicial Elections, 2026
This is an update of an entry from 16 years ago. The structure and offices are the same, but the names are different for 2026. It took me a while to puzzle all this out, and I thought others might be interested as well. Oklahoma has 26 District Courts. Tulsa...
Colleen McCarty's short, progressive, soft-on-crime resume
Colleen McCarty's entire, albeit brief, legal career has been spent in service to leftist priorities. There's a place in the world for inexperienced, bleeding-heart-liberal lawyers who fight prosecutorial overreach and excessive incarceration, but that place is not the District Attorney's office.
Tulsa Public Schools 2026 bond issues: No on all four
Tulsa Public Schools is asking voters to approve four bond issue propositions, totalling $609 million, on the April 7, 2026, ballot. Every voter registered within the boundaries of Tulsa Public Schools is eligible to vote, regardless of party registration, whether or not you have children in TPS, whether or not...
Open Meeting Act: Are structural reforms futile?
Monday was the first day of the second regular session of the 60th Oklahoma Legislature. State Senators have filed 2,183 bills over the course of this two-year legislature and State Representatives have filed 3,506. Many if not most of those bills have been offered in reaction to some failure, inefficiency,...
SQ 836: Just say no to jungle primaries
A flock of very aggressive petition circulators have been accosting shoppers in parking lots over the last month or so, trying to meet the signature requirement to put State Question 836 on the Oklahoma ballot. The deadline for signature collection is in the next few days. They call SQ 836...
April 2025 Oklahoma school board & municipal elections: BatesLine ballot card
Posted on March 27, 2025 and postdated to remain at the top of the blog through election day. Tuesday, April 1, 2025, is the annual school general election for Oklahoma school districts and technology center districts, plus city elections in statutory charter cities, and a number of special county, municipal,...
House 71 and House 74 special election filing
In Oklahoma, election season never ends. (Just ask our weary election board secretaries.) Two special elections have been called to fill vacancies in Tulsa County State House seats that were just up for election last year: House District 71 in midtown Tulsa and House District 74 in Owasso. The filing...
2025 Tulsa County GOP precinct meetings
UPDATED 2025/01/27 with information about Wagoner County precinct meetings. See the end of this entry for details. This coming Tuesday, January 28, 2025, at 6:00 pm, Republicans will gather for precinct meetings across Tulsa County, the first stage in a series of conventions leading to the Oklahoma Republican State...
Oklahoma Election 2024: BatesLine ballot card
In-person absentee (early) voting will be available at in every county from Wednesday, October 30, through Friday, November 1, 2022 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., and on Saturday, November 2, 2022, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. In most counties, this will be at the County Election Board office...
Oklahoma Election 2024: Statewide and legislative races
I've already published my picks for all the races, but here's a quick discussion of Oklahoma's statewide and legislative seats on the November 5, 2024, ballot: Corporation Commission: I'm voting for Libertarian nominee Chad Williams. As I wrote in June, a vote for Brian Bingman, the Republican nominee and former...
2024 Oklahoma congressional races: Vote Republican
Oklahoma has no U. S. Senate races this year -- Markwayne Mullin will face the voters in 2026, James Lankford in 2028 -- but four of our five House seats have general election contests. District 3 Congressman Frank Lucas drew only Republican opponents and won re-election in the June primary....
2024 Oklahoma judicial retention ballot
All Oklahoma voters will have 12 judicial retention questions on the backside of the November 5, 2024, ballot. Unlike district judges, where competitors run in non-partisan elections, justices of the Oklahoma Supreme Court and judges on the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals and Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals are appointed,...
Is Oklahoma's voter database suspicious?
A couple of friends have posted links to an article alleging shenanigans in Oklahoma's voter registration records. The article is on a website known for sensationalistic headlines, but that article linked to an analysis on another site more temperate in tone, but missing important context. The bottom line: The...
2024 runoff recap
Some encouraging results in Tuesday's Republican runoffs; a heartbreaking near-miss in the Tulsa general election. Grassroots candidates defeated three RINO incumbent legislators: In Senate District 3, Julie McIntosh defeated incumbent Blake Cowboy Stephens by 61% to 39%. Corey DeAngelis, a leader in the national school choice movement celebrated the result,...
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