On December 10, an Oregon state court refused injunctive relief to a group of voters whose mail-in ballots weren’t counted because election officials thought their signatures on the outer envelope of the ballot didn’t match their signatures on voter registration forms. There is a procedure for such voters to contest such a ruling, but it depended on notifying those voters and in many cases the notifications did not reach the voters. This outcome is bad news for the proponents of Measure 92, the initiative that was just barely defeated, on the subject of labels for genetically altered foods. See this story.