Okla. Stat. tit. 19, § 19-26: Election expenses - How paid - Commissioners' compensation

All special election commissioners, selected and commissioned as

provided herein, shall receive as compensation for their services,

the sum of Three Dollars ($3.00) per day for each and every day

necessarily employed in the work connected with the holding of such

election, including the time spent in going to and returning from

said county, and the actual and necessary traveling expenses, and

for maintenance in the performance of such duties. Such

commissioner shall prepare and file with the Governor a sworn

itemized statement of time employed and expenses incurred, which

said statement shall be by the Governor, forwarded to the county

clerk of the county holding such election. The expenses connected

with the holding of any such special election, including the per

diem and expenses of all such special election commissioners, shall

be borne and paid for by the county out of any funds in the hands of

the county treasurer. The expenses of holding said election shall

be paid, if the proposition is to create a new county, by the new

county so created, if the proposition is successful; if the

proposition is to detach territory from one county and add to

another, by the county to which said territory is added, if the

proposition is successful.