The Oklahoma Libertarian Party is the state affiliate of the Libertarian Party in Oklahoma. It has been active in state politics since the 1970s, but due to Oklahoma's ballot access requirements the party has been an officially recognized party during only portions of the last twenty-five years. In 2016, The Oklahoma Libertarian Party regained ballot access. The state party has secured ballot access through at least 2024. State party organization State party affiliates and chairs As of July 2022, the state party's Chair is Will Daugherty. Other state officers are Vice Chair Jeff Fortune, Secretary Cherise Norton, and Treasurer Todd Hagopian. Former state chairs include James Beau Thouvenel, Kevin Hobbie, Chad Williams, Erin Adams, Tina Kelly, Steve Long, Seth Wheeler, Clark Duffe, Angelia O'Dell, Jimmy Cook, Steve Galpin, Chris Powell, Richard Prawdzienski, Robert Murphy, D. Frank Robinson, Tom Laurent, Gordon Mobley and Porter Davis. The party has local affiliates in the following counties: Canadian, Cleveland, Oklahoma, Tulsa, and Washington. Lawsuits 1976 The campaign of Eugene McCarthy won a ruling from the Oklahoma Supreme Court to place it's Independent electors on the ballot. The American Party, Communist Party, and OKLP all sought to have their candidates and electors put on the ballot as well. The Court ruled against the American Party, distinguishing between an Independent candidate and a candidate of a political party that has not met the requirements for recognition in the state of Oklahoma. After ruling against the American Party, the Court saw no need to hear similar cases brought by the Communist Party and the OKLP. Arutunoff v. Oklahoma State Election Board The OKLP challenged revocation of their official recognition, and ability to run candidates under the party label, by the state after the 1980 elections. State law required a party's presidential candidate to receive at least 10% of the vote to maintain ballot access. The 10th Circuit upheld the ruling against the OKLP. 1984 cases With ninety days to gather over 44,000 signatures and hampered by both bad weather and harassment over petitioning on public property, the OKLP fell short gathering only 28,894 names. One day after being denied ballot access, the party filed suit claiming Oklahoma's ballot access laws were unconstitutional. The party won by default when the Attorney General's office missed a deadline to file a response during the proceedings after the lead attorney mistakenly believed his deadline was 5 days later. Twenty Libertarian candidates