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This voter guide includes profiles on all Oklahoma state level elections that influence public education. This guide is not intended to offer any endorsement or anti-endorsement. The goal is to provide you with as much information as possible to allow you to make up your own mind. We have included links in each profile to candidate websites and social media accounts to provide you with public resources to help with your independent research on your candidates. We encourage you to reach out to candidates directly if you have questions not answered by this voter guide.
● Only races that will be on the August 23rd runoff ballot will be highlighted in this guide.
● Within highlighted races, we will include all candidates on the primary ballot, along with the profile of any candidates those winners will face in the final November election.
● Several of these races will be decided in the August runoff election, as their is no challengers from additional political parties. Final elections are noted.
● ORSC will issue another final election voter guide prior to the November elections.
● Due to redistricting, many voters will be in new voting districts and many will have new polling places. Please verify your House and Senate districts AND check for a new polling place at this link: https://okvoterportal.okelections.us/.
Since April, all candidates were emailed 4 separate times with an invitation to participate in our questionnaire. Candidates were also contacted via Facebook messenger and all show that they read the direct messages. At this stage in the election cycle, all candidates that have NOT responded directly to our invitation to participate have chosen to not engage with public education voters via this guide. Questions are based on a membership legislative focus poll we conducted prior to 2022 legislative session as priority issues for rural voters.
● There are color-coded classifications for each candidate - here is what they mean:
○ GREEN - candidate is verified via responses or public info as against vouchers.
○ ORANGE - candidate has information in responses or public realm that is of concern OR they did not respond to our questionnaire.
○ RED - candidate is verified via responses or public info as pro-voucher.