Foreword
The life of a small political party is a hard one, particularly in Oklahoma. Every two years, if a party does not receive at least 10 percent of the vote in the highest office it is contesting, it’s decertified and its voting rolls are expunged. The party then has to file for recertification and begin registering voters from scratch.This is the lot of the Oklahoma Libertarian Party, whose membership has hovered in the hundreds for decades. In 1996, the party sought to broaden its appeal by opening participation in its primaries to independent voters, in addition to registered Libertarian Party…