The Oregon Office of Secretary of State announced yesterday that opponents of the state’s recently-enacted domestic partnership regime failed in their attempt to collect enough signatures to put a referendum on the ballot next year allowing voters to accept or reject the measure. They lost, however, by only a hair: opponents came up 116 signatures short of the 55,179 needed. The press release is here. Word is expected later this week on whether opponents gathered enough signatures to put a referendum on the ballot next year allowing voters to accept or reject a separate measure including sexual orientation in the coverage of state nondiscrimination protections (for more, see here).
-Anthony C. Infanti
