OKLAHOMA CITY (January 22, 2026)—Today, Oklahoma Senate President Pro Tempore Lonnie Paxton and Oklahoma House Speaker Kyle Hilbert, along with 110 of their fellow members of the Oklahoma Legislature, issued an open letter to the people of Oklahoma, urging them to be wary of signing the initiative petition to place State Question 836 on the statewide ballot.

The letter can be read here.

All totaled, the letter represents over 75 percent of the membership of Oklahoma’s two legislative chambers.

SQ 836, if adopted by Oklahoma voters, would remove Oklahoma’s current election system and replace it with a top-two jungle primary election system for federal, state, and county offices. At present, California and Washington are the only two U.S. states that utilize the same top-two jungle primary system as SQ 836.