I would suggest, as Chair Emeritus of the OKLP, that the money be spent to pay filing fees for candidates running as independents for the state legislature to raise awareness of ballot access in real elections.

Candidates using this issue to lead their campaigns could attract support for a future ballot initiative AND this is the most effective way to lobby incumbents by making them publicly defend their self-serving law.

OKIES, get it together for the June filing period. Same advice applies to many other states I’ll bet.

This might be an issue that younger people support more. I was at a local meeeting of young democrats (watching the debate) and their was wide support for IRV and fair ballot access laws. I have known young Republicans who feel the same way.

The USSC rulings on ballot access law (post-1968) have just been embarassing sloppy, confusing anad downright laughable. They might get better in the future, but i doubt that the two new justices are friendly to the cause.

When a legislative body comes up with a BS anti-1st amendment rule that prohibits people from travelling in from other states to ask people to sign petitions it limits the pool of petition signature gatherers to the point where it is much more difficult to put things on the ballot. The biggest loser in this situation is the general public in Oklahoma as they are being denied choices on the ballot.

SEPARATE ballot access laws are NOT EQUAL ballot access laws ???

See Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483, 495 (1954) — for some MORON reasons NOT brought up in hundreds of ballot access cases since 1968.