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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 .
amend the Oklahoma Constitution to provide that the governor and lieutenant governor be jointly elected. State Question 800: No 488,612 42.78 653,630 57.22 amend the Oklahoma Constitution to create a new trust fund consisting of a portion of all taxes collected against the extraction of oil and gas resources. State Question 801: No 572,811 49.6 ...
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 ...
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.
There will be two state questions on your November 5 ballot. They are both legislative referendums, in other words, put on the ballot by the Legislature. A legislative referendum begins as a House ...
Rep. Terry O’Donnell, R-Catoosa, and Sen. John Haste, R-Tulsa, sponsored a resolution to put State Question 833 on the ballot and debated in favor of the measures on the House and Senate floors.
The results of State Question 755 have not been officially certified by the Oklahoma Election Board due to an injunction filed in Federal Court by the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR). CAIR is challenging its constitutionality under the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause of the Constitution of the United States . [ 5 ]
Rep. Jim Olsen, R-Roland, said the resolution would make it more difficult for the Oklahoma Supreme Court to “ignore the rights of the unborn.” Could Oklahoma voters be asked to amend state ...