Most petitions failing … except 2

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon
OregonWatchdog.com

Friday, July 3rd, is the final deadline day for state petitions to submit signatures to qualify for the Oregon November ballot.

Based on a scan of news reports and on people in the field working the petitions, it appears that almost all the petitions making the news in 2026 will not qualify.  This includes:

• Abolish the Death Tax petition
• Right to Vote on Tolling
• Tough-on-crime sentencing petition
• No paddle board/canoe tax
• Equal Rights Amendment (officially ended)

Many of these petitions caught a tailwind from the historic gas tax referendum.  The Abolish Death Tax petition and Right to Vote on Tolling petition were on their second try and were able to double and triple their signatures compared to their first run.   Yet, many of the petitions still started late (sometimes caught up in court challenges), which makes it even more difficult to qualify in an already difficult process.

Here are two petitions that are close to qualifying.

#1. The hunt-fish ban (IP28).  The campaign submitted 138,000 signatures to the state early. The measure requires 117,173 valid signatures.  They are still collecting.

#2. The Portland petition to fully fund the police.   This is a local City of Portland petition to restore police funding levels, and it has gained much progress in such a short amount of time.   If this petition makes the ballot, voters would pass it and it would be a rebuke to the disastrous defunding of police (100 positions cut) and would help reverse the terrible crime wave.

Speaking of the Portland petition.  There is still time to alert any friends you have in Portland and to go online and download the single-signer petition sheet and print it out on their home printer and mail it in this week. Because these petitions will come so close to qualifying, every single signature counts.   This is the final week.  Please get petitions in.

You can mail them at this address:

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