Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 230 - State Election Board › Chapter 15 - Voter Registration › Subchapter 5 - Application for Voter Registration › Part 19 - RECOGNIZED POLITICAL PARTIES AND POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS › Section 230:15-5-79 - Political organizations

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
(a) A
				  political organization is an organization or political group that at one time
				  has been a recognized political party under Oklahoma law but that subsequently
				  failed to retain its recognized status as provided by law. Such a group's
				  status as a political organization shall continue for four years from the date
				  that the State Election Board revokes recognition of the political party as
				  provided by law. A political organization may regain its status as a recognized
				  political party only by following the statutory procedure for forming a new
				  party. A group may acquire the status of political organization only by first
				  becoming a recognized political party and subsequently losing recognition as
				  provided by law.
(b) Applicants for
				  voter registration are entitled to select political organizations as their
				  political affiliations. Voters whose political affiliations are changed from
				  that of a decertified political party to Independent as outlined in
				  230:15-5-78(b)
				  shall be entitled to apply to change their voter registrations to reflect their
				  affiliation with the political organization. Voters who select a political
				  organization as their political affiliation are not Independent voters and are
				  subject to the conditions outlined in (c) of this Section. Voters indicate
				  their affiliation with a political organization by writing in the name of the
				  organization in the space for "Other" in Section 2 on the Oklahoma Voter
				  Registration Application form or in Section 7 on the Federal Voter Registration
				  Application form.
(c) Political
				  organizations shall not have the right to conduct primary elections, to run
				  candidates for office, or to have name recognition on any ballot. A voter
				  affiliated with a political organization shall not be entitled to file as an
				  Independent candidate for any federal, state, county, or partisan municipal
				  office and shall not be entitled to vote for the candidates of any political
				  party at primary or runoff primary elections. Voters affiliated with a
				  political organization may vote only on nonpartisan races and questions at
				  primary and runoff primary elections. Voters affiliated with political
				  organizations shall receive the same ballot as all other voters at General
				  Elections and may vote for any candidate or party on such General Election
				  ballot.
(d) Within 60 days after a
				  political organization ceases to exist, the Secretary of the State Election
				  Board shall cause the political affiliation of all voters registered in that
				  political organization to be changed to Independent in MESA. After completing
				  the process to change the political affiliations of the political
				  organization's voters, the State Election Board staff shall prepare and
				  distribute to each County Election Board a report listing all affected voters
				  in the county. After receiving the list of voters from the State Election
				  Board, the Secretary of the County Election Board shall follow the same steps
				  outlined in
				  230:15-5-78(c).
Amended at 16 Ok Reg
					 522, eff 1-1-99 (emergency); Amended at 16 Ok Reg 2404, eff 7-1-99; Amended at
					 28 Ok Reg 1132, eff 7-1-11