Talk:List of Oregon ballot measures

message: This is a very incomplete list, of course. I added the ones I found most significant, from 1990 onwards. Maybe I'll go back to some older important ones earlier.
: Clipdude 21:12 1 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Please can someone update this page?
: There weren't any ballot measures in Oregon in 2005, and there weren't any in the 2006 Primary Election. There will be some in the fall General Election, but the Secretary of State's Office is still verifying the signatures and assigning measure numbers. PDF file from the Oregon SOS Office--Clipdude 07:28, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes

message: Can we please update the information past 2008, its been multiple years and some of the alst ballots are extremely important to our functioning as a modern state. I will work on it if I get the chance but in the meantime can someone please take some time to research and add the past few years, it would be awesome and is critical for this page. -michaelkemp2 161.38.218.188 (talk) 00:00, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Complete 

message: It would be nice if there were a strong visual cue for measures that passed vs. failed, and those that amend the constitution vs. those that don't.
Not sure the best way to go about it, but I'll mull it over.
-Pete 20:02, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I found that the California page does this pretty well. I'm thinking a table would be best, with columns for number, pass/fail, constitutional/statutory, tax-increase(?), and description. -Pete 07:31, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Also, it would be good to come up with a standard "tense" that doesn't vary according to whether the measure passed or not. Instead of, for example, "would have amended" and "amended," maybe it would be best to just use the word "amend" - ? -Pete 23:32, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  structure 

message: Since the results are in, I'm moving the 2006 issues to the 2000's section, and stating which ones passed and failed. If the results turn out to be different in the morning, please change them. I am Girl 05:51, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  results for 2006 

message: I believe there's a mistake in the description of Measure 6 (1922). According to the Wikipedia page about the court case involved (linked), the ballot initiative was merely an amendment to an existing statute. It appears to me that the existing statute is the one described here, erroneously.
I know nothing about this except what I've found on Wikipedia, and have no legal experience...I'll modify the content to match my understanding, but hope that better legal minds will come along to review this section!
-Pete 06:58, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ballot Measure 6 (1922) 

message: Transcript from the NewsHour from 1998: Initiative Overload -Pete 00:46, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potential reliable sources 

message: Lestatdelc and I have been working on categorizing ballot measures. There's an existing category structure of referendums by year, e.g. :Category:2008 referendums. We've just begun making some like :Category:2008 ballot measures.
It's my understanding that "referendum" usually means measures that are put to a popular vote after they have been voted on by the legislature. It seems that in some places, the term is used more generally, but in Oregon that specific meaning seems pretty common.
So I think it's best to populate the new categories, and avoid putting anything but the very few measures that are actually referendums into the existing categories. Thoughts? -Pete (talk) 08:29, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. I was more just trying to get my cranium around how the subcategory tags, etc. work, than getting into the particulars of what the technical differences are and what Oregon ballot measures do, or do not merit actually being termed referendum. Lestatdelc (talk) 04:14, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Referendum" vs. "ballot measure" 

message: Not sure if those editing here have seen this, but some good info (need to scroll down the page a bit) in the lesson plan materials. Aboutmovies (talk) 05:31, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source for expansion/citations 

message: Is this page meant to discuss only ballot measures that have been on the ballot? If so, is there another place for proposed measures for upcoming elections? The Secretary of State's web page is useful but unwieldy. Gelasticjew (talk) 13:40, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: An article about proposed measures would have problems with verifiability—significant problems I would think—given the vast quantities of point of view rhetoric which flies around. I imagine such an article would be a magnet for paid staffers to alter to their purposes as well, though that's hardly a reason not to have such an article. —EncMstr (talk) 16:46, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I was thinking of just a list of ballot measures that have certified ballot titles, summary, and yes/no vote results; I could note which ones were on appeal at the Supreme Court and then the disposition. It's all available on the SecState's website. Maybe the section could be called "Ballot Measures Certified for the 2010 Election".Gelasticjew (talk) 13:29, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That seems like it would be fine addition. I especially like having it on this article instead of some new article because the previous measures add a nice deep context. —EncMstr (talk) 18:33, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed measures included? 

message: There is a wiki project that covers ballot measures and news for every state at http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php It includes actual ballot measures and proposed measures at http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/List_of_Oregon_ballot_measures Just thought I'd throw this out here. Seemed relevant. TimeClock871 (talk) 13:55, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems like a useful addition to me, I've used BallotPedia some over the years, and it's becoming a pretty useful site. Definitely a service to the reader to have a link there. Thanks. -Pete (talk) 17:09, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Useful Websites 

message: Today's practice is to give each measure a number, such as "Measure 1". The State of Oregon uses this convention in its modern list of all past ballot measures, and we have copied them. Furthermore, we say, "Vote yes on Measure 1", or simply, "No on 2", when recommending a vote. But in looking through voters' pamphlets and contemporary newspapers, I've discovered that we've only been doing this since 1954. So, referring to any measure before 1954 as "Measure 1", for example, is an anachronism, and I wonder if we should change this article as a result.
Up until 1952, each ballot option was given a number. For measures, the numbers would start with 300, which was the "yes" option for the first measure listed on the ballot. Number 301 would be the corresponding "no" option. The options for the second measure would be numbered 302 (for "yes") and 303 (for "no"), then 304 and 305 for the third, and so on.
The official voters' pamphlet would cite a measure by referring to the numbers for its ballot options (although it would often refer to it by a descriptive title too). The first measure on the ballot would be "Nos. 300 and 301", the second would be "Nos. 302 and 303", and so on. In contemporary newspapers, only occasionally would a measure be referred to as "Measure No. 300", and as far as I can tell, only by someone who happened to support a "yes" vote.
When recommending how to vote on a measure, the practice was to refer to the corresponding option's number. Contemporary newspapers and the arguments in the voters' pamphlet would say, "Vote 300 X YES", or simply, "303 X NO". (Incidentally, something like "300×YES" would occasionally appear when advanced typography was possible, which to me suggests this was considered the most typographically correct form.) My hypothesis is that people would indicate their vote by writing an X in the space between the number and the word "Yes/No" on their ballot, and telling people, "Vote 300 X YES" emulated that.
I'm not sure how it could be done, but I'm curious what people think about adjusting the article to identify measures in the same way they were identified by the state and the media at the time they were on the ballot.—Athelwulf [T]/[C] 01:29, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anachronistic references to measures before 1954 

message: I noticed Kate Brown is linked as the author of many of these under her capacity as Oregon Secretary of State. But I would argue that she isn't the author, it is the Office of the Secretary of State. Any objections to removing the authorlinks or am I missing something? Valfontis (talk) 20:54, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Author links 

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