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In 1902, Oregon voters approved a legislatively referred ballot measure creating Oregon’s initiative and referendum process. Two years later voters enacted the direct primary and in 1908, Oregonians amended our Constitution to allow for recall of public officials. This “Oregon System” empowers the people to propose new
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- "Referendum U'ren" Moves to Oregon in 1889
- Founding of The Oregon Direct Legislation League
- Approval of An I&R Law in 1899
- An Explosion of Initiatives
- Other Notable Initiatives in Oregon History
- Initiative Frequency Slows Down in The 1960s
- Bill Sizemore Versus The Unions
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Historians identify one man as the driving force behind I&R: William Simon U'Ren, known as early as 1898 as "Referendum U'Ren" for his single-minded devotion to the cause. U'Ren was born on 10 January 1859 in Lancaster, Wisconsin, the son of a blacksmith who, with his wife, had emigrated from Cornwall in England. Young U'Ren accompanied his family ...
U'Ren, with the financial support of the Lewellings, took it upon himself to forge the tools of democracy: initiative, referendum, and recall. He brought together representatives of the state Farmer's Alliance and labor unions to form the Oregon Direct Legislation League, of which he was named secretary. In 1894 U'Ren was elected chairman of the st...
U'Ren ran for the state senate in 1898 and lost, but nevertheless won passage of his I&R amendment the following year. Under Oregon's constitution, amendments had to be approved by two successive sessions of the legislature. In 1901 I&R passed with a single dissenting vote, and a year later voters ratified it by an eleven to one margin.
U'Ren joined other reformers in sponsoring dozens of initiatives during the next two decades. In 1906, he was among the sponsors of an initiative to ban free railroad passes, which the railroads routinely handed out as gifts to politicians and which he himself had once received. In 1908, he proposed initiatives to make Oregon the first state with p...
1908 1. Measure 14: established power to recall public officials by ballot initiative. 1922 1. Measure 6: amended a statute requiring children between eight and sixteen to attend public school, to eliminate an exemption for private school students; the measure passed 115,506 to 103,685, but was invalidated by the Supreme Court of the United States ...
In the 1960s, Oregonians put only seven initiatives on the state ballot in five elections, far below their average. In 1960, scenery-conscious citizens sponsored an initiative to limit billboards through the state, but the electorate rejected it by a nearly two to one margin. In the 1970s, however, leading the national trend, initiative use rebound...
In the 1990s saw the rise of an initiative proponent by the name of Bill Sizemore. Sizemore became known as Mr. Initiative. He drew the ire of the progressives (liberals) because all of the initiatives he sponsored (literally dozens) were all aimed at them – tax cuts, paycheck protection, labor reform and term limits. His success rate at the ballot...
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Initiative, Referendum and Recall Introduction. In 1902, Oregon voters overwhelmingly approved a legislatively referred ballot measure that created Oregon’s initiative and referendum process. In 1904, voters enacted the direct primary and, in 1908, Oregon’s Constitution was amended to allow for recall of public officials.
The quorums and voting requirements of Oregon state boards, commissions, or councils are governed by general law, ORS 174.130 », or by special statutes. General authority to adopt rules to govern their proceedings is not sufficient authority for boards, commissions, or councils to write a rule contrary to ORS 174.130 » or special statutes of ...
The U.S. state of Oregon established vote-by-mail as the standard mechanism for voting with Ballot Measure 60, a citizen's initiative, in 1998. The measure made Oregon the first state in the United States to conduct its elections exclusively by mail. The measure passed on November 3, 1998, by a margin of 69.4% to 30.6%. [1] .
Since 2009, the Oregon Investment Council has utilized Glass Lewis as its proxy voting agent to perform research and cast votes on Oregon’s behalf. In 2022, more than 108,469 proxy votes were cast. The new proxy voting disclosure database will be hosted by Glass Lewis on their website and feature proxy voting data for the five (5) most recent ...
Jan 19, 2021 · On March 1, 2010, Oregon became the fourth state in the nation to provide online voter registration. In 2009, the Legislative Assembly passed . House Bill 2386 directing the Secretary of State (SOS) to adopt an electronic voter registration system. Oregonians who are at least 16 years of age and have a valid Oregon driver’s license, permit, or
