Welcome to the bizarro world of Oklahoma politics – a strange, silly place where Republicans want to increase voter turnout in local elections, and it’s the Democrats who oppose them.
Earlier this week, TLO superfan Barbara Hoberock filed an article for Oklahoma Voice-Watch-Frontier-Doc – I struggle with keeping my Oklahoma non-profit journalism outlets straight – that covers a recent effort by right-wing Oklahoma lawmakers to move school board elections to the November ballot.
Although Republicans are usually anti-democracy, want to make it more difficult and cumbersome to vote, and have introduced some bizarre bills to try to do exactly that, they’re all for increasing voter participation in local elections when it benefits them and makes it easier for the party to control, dictate, and right-wing-radicalize local school boards.