In Oregon we can use our right of the initiative. In the last two state legislative sessions, legislators have introduced more than 100 bills designed to make the initiative process more difficult or more expensive. Seems the state legislature doesn't like the voters having so much say on public policy. Legislators have dreamed up scheme after scheme to slow down Oregon's self-government system. They have crafted numerous new rules to sabotage the process.
Many legislators are openly hostile to the initiative process.
For every duplicate signature, they eliminate 400 other signatures. Many experts agree that this penalty is wildly inaccurate, but Secretary of State Bill Bradbury continues to enthusiastically enforce it anyway. Bradbury finds one duplication and he wipes out the signatures of 400 other voters who invested their time and effort to consider the issue and sign the petition. This year, thousands of registered voters had their signatures nullified by Secretary Bradbury even though they had never been notified that the Secretary of State would not count their signatures. Measure 96 simply tells the legislature to leave the initiative process alone .