On election day on February 9, ice covered Tulsa streets and the temperature was in the 20s.

Predictably, there was an extremely low turnout – perhaps even a record.

Why do we schedule elections in the middle of winter?

Typically, these elections involve local public school boards and school bond elections.

School officials embrace low turnouts because they don’t want high voter interest in elections. Superintendents want hand-picked board members that are in tune with the Oklahoma Education Association and its liberal, humanistic agenda.

That is one reason why the Tulsa Public School Board is dominated by liberals who vote in lockstep with Superintendent Gist and her progressive mandates.

All district seem to relish low voter turnouts for  bond issues because they know they can count on the teachers’ union and the PTA leadership to rally their troops to keep the district endlessly in debt – no matter the need or the project.

A school board race or a bond vote during a presidential election or a gubernatorial election could produce a result unfavorable to the OEA and its minions.

Oklahoma has too many election dates. In the past, there have been legislative bills that would limit election dates to three a year and to get them out of low-turnout months like February and August.

But politics runs deep in public education and the OEA has always successfully squelched those reforms.

And so we get school boards dominated by liberals and bond issue after bond issue after bond issue.

Few people take the time to vote when it’s 20 degrees in February. This is true “voter suppression.”