Oklahoma

A crawler modeled on Florida looks for 77 elected county election chiefs with 77 websites and 77 formats. Oklahoma has none: the State Election Board appoints two of every county board's three members from party lists and the secretary who runs day-to-day administration (26 O.S. §§2-110–111.1), every county votes on the same Hart eScan device, and one state feed reports every race. The county layer is an administrative arm, not a federation.

Oklahoma has party registration and closed primaries, but each recognized party declares every odd November whether independents may vote its primary for the next two years. A model that learned 'Democrats let independents in' from 2020 is wrong now: for 2026–27, no party opened its primary. Meanwhile state questions on the same ballots are open to every voter — the electorate differs by contest within one election.

All three appellate courts — the Supreme Court (civil), the Court of Criminal Appeals (a separate court of last resort), and the Court of Civil Appeals — are filled by merit selection and face uncontested yes/no retention votes at the November general. A results parser expecting a two-candidate judicial schema mis-parses every retention line, and a court-name matcher expecting one supreme court mis-files half the criminal docket.

Candidate filing for the entire cycle — federal, statewide, legislative, judicial, county — happens in a single Wednesday-to-Friday window: April 1–3, 2026, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. A crawler watching for a months-long qualifying season misses the whole field, which the state then publishes as one Candidate List Book.

SB 1027 (signed May 2025, emergency) capped how many signatures any single county may contribute to an initiative petition — 11.5% of that county's last gubernatorial vote for statutory measures, 20.8% for constitutional — plus a 90-day window and Oklahoma-resident circulators. A petition model based on the old flat statewide count can call a sufficient petition insufficient, or miss that a metro-concentrated drive is now structurally impossible. Litigation reported, status unresolved.

School board seats never appear on the November ballot: boards file in December, run a February primary (a majority wins outright), and finish in April — every year, under Title 26 §13A. A harvester keyed to the June-August-November cycle sees zero school offices in a state with 539 districts.

Standard absentee affidavits must be notarized by law — a genuine national outlier. The exceptions replace the notary with two witnesses (incapacitated or visually impaired voters) or the bipartisan Absentee Voting Board (care facilities). A voter-flow model assuming signature-match omits a hard dependency, and mail ballots must be received by 7 p.m. election day — no postmark grace.

Oklahoma's runoff is primary-only — the general is plurality — but the August 25 runoff ballot carries State Questions 844 and 846, which every registered voter may vote even though both primaries are closed. A turnout model that treats the runoff as a party-insiders event miscounts the SQ electorate, and a measure-tracker watching only November misses half the year's questions. May, July, September, and October are statutorily prohibited election months in even years.