Covering Heavener and LeFlore County
Commissioners’ agenda 1-23-2023
The LeFlore County commissioners will meet in a regular business meeting 9 a.m. Monday in the office of the board of county commissioners. Continue reading “Commissioners’ agenda 1-23-2023”
An official voter registration report by the Oklahoma State Election Board shows 2,225,086 people are registered to vote as of Jan. 15, 2023. The annual report comes days after the State Election Board conducted its statutorily-required voter list maintenance process, removing inactive voters and duplicate voters.
Current numbers show Republicans make up 51.9% of registered voters, while Democrats constitute 29.5% of the voting population. Libertarians consist of 0.9% of the voter registration rolls and Independents account for nearly 17.7%.
The routine voter list maintenance process was conducted Jan. 13 and removed 2,855 duplicate voter registrations and 83,719 inactive voter registrations from Oklahoma’s voter rolls. The removal of inactive and duplicate voter registrations is a thorough, multi-step process the State Election Board is required by law to conduct every two years following a General Election.
Duplicate registrations that were deleted matched newer registrations by the same person at a new address. Inactive registrations that were removed were for voters who failed to confirm their address in 2019 and then had no voter activity through the 2022 General Election. (The 2019 Address Confirmation Notices were sent to some voters for one of several different reasons required by law, including those who surrendered an Oklahoma driver license upon being issued a new one in another state, or who had a first-class mailing from the Election Board returned as “undeliverable,” or who were identified as a potential duplicate of a voter registration in another county or state, or who had no voter activity from the 2016 General Election through the 2018 General Election.)
The State Election Board reminds voters that the deadline to register or update their registration for the February 14 election is Friday, January 20. The voter registration deadline for the March 7 election is Friday, February 10. Applications must be postmarked or received by the deadline.
For more information on voter registration or to view voter registration statistics, visit the State Election Board website.
The Heavener Utilities Authority and City Council will meet in regularly scheduled meetings 6 p.m. Thursday at the Heavener City Hall at 103 East Avenue B. Continue reading “HUA, Council agendas 1-19-2023”
By KEN MILAM
A proposal for a special election to allow alcohol sales by retail spirits licenses – or liquor stores – seven days a week in LeFlore County was tabled until next week by county commissions on Tuesday. Continue reading “Commissioners table proposal for election”
LeFlore County commissioners will meet in a regular business meeting 9 a.m. Tuesday in the office of the board of county commissioners.
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Keota man dies in wreck and a Spiro woman is in critical condition after a wreck near Spiro Tuesday evening. Continue reading “Keota man dies in wreck”
County commissioners approve a notice to seek sealed bids for a surplus 2007 and a 2008 Mack truck from the District 2 inventory at Monday’s weekly meeting.
The board handled some routine start-of-the-year items, including revising the Emergency Operations Plan to include newly elected commissioners Vallard Campbell III and Jamie Oliver.
Oliver also was appointed to the LeFlore County KEDDO board of directors, effective Jan.3.
Sadie Doucette was appointed deputy to the county assessor.
Larry Young was re-appointed to the Equalization and Excise Boards.
A lease was renewed between the county and Service Oklahoma for the space behind the courthouse annex used for driver safety and testing driver license applicants.
Kevin Merritt and Sarah Jordan were named requisitioning officers and Gail Hudson and Dusti McBeth as receiving officers to all district attorney accounts.
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