OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Republican Party won big in Oklahoma on Election Day, delivering the state's seven electoral votes to presidential candidate Donald Trump, winning all of the congressional seats on the ballot and increasing the party's legislative majorities. Oklahoma voters also rejected a 1 percent sales tax to help fund public schools and teacher pay raises and enshrined the death penalty in the state constitution
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Voters in Osage County in northeastern Oklahoma waited in line for more than two hours after the polls closed because of long lines and a shortage of poll workers. Oklahoma Election Board spokesman Bryan Dean says a sheriff's deputy raced across the county Tuesday night with lights and sirens to bring the county election board secretary to the precinct in the eastern part of the county to help get the lines moving. All of the voters were able to cast ballots by 10 p.m.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma voters on Tuesday rejected a 1 percent sales tax increase that would have funded teacher pay raises, delivering a blow to the state's public school educators, who are among the lowest paid in the nation. Public education in Oklahoma has borne the brunt of state revenues shrinking amid slumping oil and natural gas prices, growing tax subsidies and a gradual reduction in the state's income tax rate over the last decade.