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From that bearing arms.com article:
Oregon Ballot Initiatives May Be COVID-19 Casualties
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This is the season when Oregon initiative campaigns normally crank up their canvassing drives to gain enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot.
But it's hard to gather signatures when most people are staying at home and don't want to get close to canvassers carrying a clipboard.
As a result, the coronavirus crisis is knocking out ballot measure campaigns with grim efficiency — to the point that Oregon this year may have the fewest number of citizen initiatives in more than four decades
Initiatives dealing with gun control, clean energy and highway tolls appear increasingly unlikely to make the ballot.
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One measure calling for tougher firearms storage requirements just recently received a final ballot title, clearing the way for signature-gathering. But Jake Weigler, a spokesman for State of Safety Action, said the group has decided to pull the plug.
"With the delays in getting the ballot title finalized and the challenge of gathering signatures in the current pandemic environment," Weigler said, "we've just decided it's not a viable strategy of trying to go forward to put this on the 2020 ballot."
Mark Knutson, a Lutheran minister who is a leader of Lift Every Voice Oregon, acknowledged that his group may also have to abandon its quest to qualify a measure putting new restrictions on semiautomatic firearms.
His group is still waiting for the Oregon Supreme Court to decide on the final language of ballot titles for three possible measures aimed at prohibiting large-capacity magazines and more tightly regulating sales of military-style semiautomatic rifles.
