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Oregon Ranked-Choice Voting with Local Option Initiative (2022)
| Oregon Ranked-Choice Voting with Local Option Initiative | |
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| Election date November 8, 2022 | |
| Topic Elections and campaigns and Voting policy measures | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type State statute | Origin Citizens |
The Oregon Ranked-Choice Voting with Local Option Initiative (#49, 50) was not on the ballot in Oregon as an initiated state statute on November 8, 2022.
Overview
Sponsors filed two versions of the initiative. The initiative would have enacted ranked-choice voting (RCV) for elections of the governor, member of the state senate, member of the state house of representatives, state treasurer, attorney general, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries, member of the United States House of Representatives, and United States Senator. The initiative would have also authorized local jurisdictions to use ranked-choice voting. The measure would have taken effect at the May 2024 primary election. The two versions of the initiative are identical, except one would have included presidential elections.[1][2][3]
RCV is a voting method in which voters rank candidates according to their preferences. If a candidate receives greater than 50% of all first-preference votes, the candidate is declared the winner and the tabulation ends. If no candidate receives a simple majority of first-preference votes, then the candidate receiving the fewest first-preference votes is eliminated. First-preference votes cast for the eliminated candidate are eliminated, and the second-preference choices indicated on those ballots are tallied as their first-preference in the following round. The process is continued until a candidate wins a simple majority (50%+1) of the vote. If there is a tie for last place, the candidates' support from earlier rounds would be compared to determine who should be eliminated.
Text of measure
Full text
The full text of the different versions are below:
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 2022 ballot:
- Signatures: 112,020 valid signatures were required.
- Deadline: The deadline to submit signatures was July 8, 2022.
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
- The initiatives were filed by Blair Bobier and Eileen Reavey on January 14, 2022.[3]
- The initiatives did not make the ballot.[3]
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Footnotes
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