Oklahomans might quickly study extra about who’s funding poll questions throughout the state.
Voters are sometimes confronted with a number of questions within the voting sales space, from legalizing medical marijuana to approving OKC’s MAPS gross sales tax and shortly a vote on funding a brand new Oklahoma County jail.
Beneath a invoice handed Monday, campaigns supporting or opposing these kinds of questions must disclose the place their cash is coming from.
“It’s a stage of transparency and I believe most Oklahomans admire the transparency,” Rep. Kevin West, R Moore, mentioned.
On the Home Flooring, a number of Democrats famous the invoice removes a requirement to get group paperwork notarized, one thing that’s required for absentee ballots.
Previously, some Republican lawmakers have supported making it harder to move state questions. They argue out of state pursuits are capable of gasoline campaigns to vary Oklahoma regulation.
“You by no means actually know,” West mentioned. “You see loads of promoting, however you by no means actually know who’s actually for or in opposition to it and it simply provides the residents yet one more stage to assist them decide if there are for or in opposition to it.”
Whereas the invoice was handed off the Home flooring Monday, the title was eliminated, signaling the invoice’s creator has extra work to do earlier than closing passage.