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Gov. Mary Fallin has signed election proclamations that place five state questions on the Nov. 8th general election ballot.

Fallin signed the proclamations on Tuesday ahead of Friday's deadline for the governor to complete paperwork for the general election ballot.

The ballot questions include: a proposal to increase the state sales tax by 1 percent to fund teacher pay raises and other education causes; a proposal to reclassify some drug possession and property crimes as misdemeanors instead of felonies; a related measure that would direct the savings in incarceration costs to community rehabilitation programs; a measure that would remove a section of the Oklahoma Constitution that prohibits use of state resources for religious purposes; and a measure to allow wine and full-strength beer to be sold in grocery stores.