Push to change primary election system scores state Supreme Court win

The Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled a proposed state question to bring open primaries to the state is “legally sufficient,” moving its supporters a step closer to beginning the process of gathering signatures of voters to try and qualify the initiative petition for an election ballot.

The court also granted supporters of State Question 836 temporary relief from a new state law , Senate Bill 1027, that limits the number of initiative petition signatures that can be collected from a single county, requires a petition's gist to be written in basic words and requires petition circulators to be registered voters in Oklahoma and disclose the organization that's paying them. The court said the initiative petition’s gist “is not misleading.”