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Oregon Limits on Grocery Store Self-Checkout Machines Initiative (2020)
| Oregon Limits on Grocery Store Self-Checkout Machines Initiative | |
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| Election date November 3, 2020 | |
| Topic Business regulation | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Oregon Limits on Grocery Store Self-Checkout Machines Initiative did not appear on the ballot in Oregon as an initiated state statute on November 3, 2020.
The measure would have prohibited grocery stores from operating more than two self-checkout machines at any time.[1]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The certified ballot title for this measure was as follows:[2]
| “ | Prohibits 'grocery stores' (defined) from operating more than two self-service checkouts; penalties; anti-retaliation lawsuits[3] | ” |
Full text
The full text of the measure can be read here.
Sponsors
Tom Chamberlain, president of the Oregon AFL-CIO, filed the initiative.[4]
Path to the ballot
The state process
In Oregon, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated state statute for the ballot is equal to 6 percent of the votes cast for governor in the most recent gubernatorial election. Signatures for Oregon initiatives must be submitted four months prior to the next regular general election. State law also requires paid signature gatherers to submit any signatures they gather every month.
Moreover, Oregon is one of several states that require a certain number of signatures to accompany an initiative petition application. The signatures of at least 1,000 electors are required to trigger a review by state officials, a period of public commentary, and the drafting of a ballot title. Prior to gathering these initial 1,000 signatures, petitioners must submit the text of the measure, a form disclosing their planned use of paid circulators, and a form designating up to three chief petitioners. The 1,000 preliminary signatures count toward the final total required.
The requirements to get an initiated state statute certified for the 2020 ballot:
- Signatures: 112,020 valid signatures were required.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was July 2, 2020.
In Oregon, signatures are verified using a random sample method. If a first round of signatures is submitted at least 165 days before an election and contains raw, unverified signatures at least equal to the minimum requirement, but verification shows that not enough of the submitted signatures are valid, additional signatures can be submitted prior to the final deadline.
Details about this initiative
- Tom Chamberlain, president of the Oregon AFL-CIO, filed the initiative on July 18, 2019.[1]
- Oregon AFL-CIO submitted over 1,500 sponsorship signatures on September 5, 2019.[5]
- The sponsors of the initiative appealed the draft ballot title to the Oregon Supreme Court on November 13, 2019.[1]
- The sponsors did not submit signatures to the secretary of state.[1]
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Oregon Secretary of State, "2020 Initiative, Referendum, and Referral Search," accessed July 19, 2019
- ↑ Oregon Secretary of State, "Attorney General Letter," accessed January 24, 2020
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Reason, "Don't Hate Me Because I Bag My Own Groceries," accessed September 11, 2019
- ↑ Oregon AFL-CIO, "Ballot Initiative to Reduce Self-Checkout Machines Moves Forward," published September 4, 2019
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