Oklahoma has one of the highest signature requirements for petitions and one of the shortest times to collect those signatures.

Norma Sapp is touring Oklahoma pulling a trailer with a 10-foot replica of the state on the back. The huge billboard sign displays the towns in Oklahoma where Sapp has traveled through as well as the name of the Web site, www.letoklahomavote.org, to inform Oklahomans about the issues with the current system of the initiative and referendum process.

According to information provided by Sapp, 92 percent of Oklahomans support an open initiative and referendum process.

Sapp is gathering signatures for her petition to get House Bill 2246 and Senate Bill 852 passed in the state legislature before time runs out this session.
If passed, the bills would extend the time allowed to collect signatures from 90 days to a year.

The bills also allow language changes to…Click here to read the rest of the story from the Poteau Daily News.