Opinion No. 68-279 (1968) Ag

Straight Party Voting — Machines — Levers Voting machines cannot be used where there are three parties on the ballot when the machines have only mechanisms which allow for straight party voting for two parties under 26 O.S. 274 [26-274] (1961). The Attorney General has had under consideration your letter of July 16, 1968, wherein you state the following facts and ask the following two questions: "As a premise for this question we ask you to accept as fact the proposition that certain voting machines used in Oklahoma (Tulsa County) can not be altered or constructed before November to permit…