Kain v. Myers

This ballot title review proceeding brought under ORS 250.085(2) concerns the Attorney General’s certified ballot title for a proposed initiative measure that the Secretary of State has denominated as Initiative Petition 23 (2004). The proposed measure, if adopted, would amend the Oregon Constitution by adding a section forbidding use of a public payroll system “to collect or to help collect political funds” and imposing consequences on any entity that uses money collected for it through the public payroll system “for a political purpose.”

Petitioners are electors who timely submitted written…