OKLAHOMA CITY – Republican Party candidates will appear at the top of the Nov. 3 general election ballot in Oklahoma, and on any special election ballots this year. Libertarian Party candidates will be listed in the second position, and Democratic Party candidates will appear in third place.
The ballot position order was chosen in a public drawing held July 16 at the State Election Board meeting room.
A separate drawing was held to establish the ballot position order for Independent candidates in the general election. The names of those candidates will appear after the list of candidates for “the recognized political parties,” State Election Board Secretary Paul Ziriax said.
Of the two Independent candidates for U.S. Senate, Tulsan Joan Farr will be listed first, followed by A.D. Nesbit of Ada. Their names will appear after incumbent Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Oklahoma City; Libertarian Robert Murphy of Norman; and Democrat Abby Broyles of Oklahoma City.
Among the three Independent candidates whose names will be appear on the Presidential ballot in Oklahoma, Jade Simmons will be listed first. She is a classical concert pianist and an author. She was named Miss Chicago and Miss Illinois in 1999 and was first runner-up at the Miss America pageant in 2000.
Rapper/songwriter Kanye West will appear in second place among the Independent presidential candidates. And Brock Pierce, director of the Bitcoin Foundation and a former actor from Puerto Rico, will be listed third.
State law requires the State Election Board Secretary to conduct a drawing every two years to determine the order of political parties on the ballot, noted Misha Mohr, the Election Board’s public information officer.
Voter registration in Oklahoma as of Jan. 15 totaled 2,090,107, including:
• 1,008,569 Republicans
• 738,256 Democrats
• 332,111 Independents
• 11,171 Libertarians