Well well, what a revoltin’ development! I can’t imagine Oklahoma Pubbies going wobbly. Reckon whahappen???
Sometimes legislators that will vote for a bill won't vote for an override. Or could be some Dems voted for the bill, knowing he'd override, so they could tell their conservative constituents they "voted for the bill but the governor vetoed it". OTOH, the legislature did override vetoes of a couple of anti-abortion bills last week, so they will do it if the issue is right. Maybe the governor's full court press in the press swayed a couple wobblers. I'll have to check the roll calls on both votes to figure out what happened.
The 75% threshold for the veto (36/48) is that high because it was an emergency measure which would have taken effect immediately. There is a non-emergency version of the measure passing out of the legislature, and that one will only take 32 votes to override the inevitable veto. Now I realize they only got 28 votes for the override this time, so that might not seem to matter, but it looks like there were four absences or abstentions, so if those four are for it, and/or they can sway back a couple of those that buckled, there’s still a chance. And even if they don’t make it, I think Brogdon, the bill’s sponsor wants to run for governator, and he might could use this as a stick to beat the commie that currently holds the office.