Oregon: Open Primary Initiative sigs are in!

12 initiatives might make ballot
Measures include abortion, tax cuts and spending limit
STEVE LAW
Statesman Journal
July 8, 2006
....A measure eliminating partisan primaries also might be in trouble.
Former Secretary of State Phil Keisling, a co-sponsor, said he's "guardedly optimistic" that the open primary can qualify for the ballot, although it will require a validity rate of more than 80 percent.
"We did a lot to get that validity rate up," said Keisling, whose mail-voting initiative in 1998 set the record at 92 percent.
As secretary of state for nine years, Keisling presided over nearly 50 initiatives on the ballot.... [more]