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Oregon Right to Self-Defense Amendment (2022)
| Oregon Right to Self-Defense Amendment | |
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| Election date November 8, 2022 | |
| Topic Firearms | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin Citizens |
The Oregon Right to Self-Defense Amendment (#54) was not on the ballot in Oregon as an initiated constitutional amendment on November 8, 2022.
The initiative would have established a right to self-defense that includes the "right to bear arms, of any type, as they see fit, for the defense of themselves and the State."[1][2]
Text of measure
Full text
- The full text of the measure is available here.
Path to the ballot
The state process
In Oregon, the number of signatures required to qualify an initiated constitutional amendment for the ballot is equal to 8 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 requirements to get an initiated constitutional amendment certified for the 2022 ballot:
- Signatures: 149,360 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 initiative was filed on March 7, 2022, by R. Leon Noble, Michael Morrow, and Lars Jefferson.[2]
- The initiative did not make the ballot.[2]
See also
External links
Footnotes
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