2016 Election Day Hopes and Predictions
Hopes and Predictions for the 2016 Statewide Election in Oklahoma By Craig Dawkins – Sunday – November 6, 2016 The State Questions… (If you don’t know what they are, view your ballot here à https://services.okelections.us/voterSearch.aspx ) Also see ( https://ballotpedia.org/Oklahoma_2016_ballot_measures ), ( https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1788916534713066&id=1649168038687917 ) SQ 776 – A NO vote has been advocated. This initiative will have no bearing on capital punishment in Oklahoma. Pass or fail, executions will continue. This sets a condition where the federal government may be forced to impose on the methods chosen by the state that violate the US Constitution. This will tie the hands of state judges to some degree because the people will have approved whatever method of execution chosen by the state. But because many or maybe most Oklahomans who vote on this will believe capital punishment hangs in the balance. It will ...