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Archive Home > 2008 > November > 10 > Unaffiliated voters may still get primary option

Unaffiliated voters may still get primary option

Independent Party would need a status bump, though, which could be awhile

By James Sinks / The Bulletin
November 10, 2008

SALEM — Oregon’s major political parties locked horns up and down the ballot on Tuesday but found one common cause to celebrate: Voters trounced Measure 65, which would have opened the state’s now-closed primary elections to independent voters.

That proposal,....

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