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Oklahoma Ballot State Question 790 was a ballot question in Oklahoma during the 2016 Elections that would have removed the Blaine Amendment (Article 2, Section 5) from the Oklahoma State Constitution. Question 790 was defeated. [1] [2] Question 790 was placed on the ballot by the Oklahoma Legislature to overturn the state ban on using public ...
Outside groups have spent at least $3.4 million on political advertising ahead of the Nov. 5 vote on whether to retain three Oklahoma Supreme Court justices.The three justices, James Edmondson ...
Incumbent Justice Yvonne Kauger, who was appointed by Governor George Nigh in 1984, ran for re-election. On election day, Kauger was narrowly removed by voters, becoming the first Supreme Court Justice to lose a retention election in Oklahoma's history. [26]
The petition, which creates a state statute — and doesn’t amend the Oklahoma Constitution — requires 92,263 signatures to get on the ballot. Constitutional amendments require 172,993.
A group frustrated by Oklahoma Supreme Court rulings has launched an unusual campaign aimed at convincing voters to remove three justices at the November ballot box.. Critics though said the ...
[8] [9] On September 21, with two challenges concerning the ballot title still before the supreme court, it issued its decision not to compel the elections board to include the question on the November 2022 ballot. [10] [11] On October 18, 2022, the governor slated a special election to occur on March 7, 2023, which would include the initiative ...
Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice Noma Gurich said voters should decide whether or not to retain judges based on the judges’ qualifications and not politics. Gurich has served on the court for 11 ...
State Question 755, also known as the Save Our State Amendment, was a legislatively-referred ballot measure held on November 2, 2010, alongside the 2010 Oklahoma elections. The ballot measure, which passed with over 70% of the vote, added bans on Sharia law and international law to the Oklahoma state constitution .