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Archive Home > 2008 > October > 02 > Oregon voters should preserve the double majority rule

Oregon voters should preserve the double majority rule

By David Blahnik / The Bulletin
October 2, 2008

I have written in this space several times of the wisdom of retaining the double majority rule.

When this law was passed in 1996, it was a good thing. Up to that point, tax increases were occurring regularly by placing measures on the ballot when the proponents knew that voter participation....

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