Nago explains the Ballot shortage

[missydog1]

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Originally posted by csgray

Oregon is a relatively easy and cheap place to get initiatives on the ballot and advertising is relatively cheap. National special interest groups use it as a testing ground for initiatives they want to push in places like California that are far more expensive and complicated to places to get the initiative on the ballot and passed. So Oregon gets flooded with initiatives.

I wish the Women's League of Voters was more active here, in some states they produce wonderful non partisan election materials, but I was told by one member here that they have trouble getting Hawaii candidates, especially neighbor island candidates, to respond to their surveys and position questions.

Carol

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thanks for that interesting info, Carol. I know pretty much nothing about politics in Oregon. The LoWV does indeed produce non-partisan analysis for their publication in California. (Or did, when I lived there)

Unfortunate that they don't get response here. Times are changing and not all voters know the candidates and issues as perhaps used to be the case.