The Oregon House Rules Committee has introduced HB 4026. It eases the definition of “political party” by lowering the percentage of registered voters needed for a party to maintain status, from one-half of 1%, to one-third of 1%. This registration requirement is an alternative to polling 1% of the vote for a statewide office at either of the last two elections. It had a hearing in the House Rules Committee on February 3. Oregon committees don’t normally vote on bills at the hearing; they do that later.
The bill was introduced at the request of the Working Families Party.
Censorship of voters with ballot access quotas and deadlines is election tampering. Abolish all ballot access censorship laws. Let the voters have their say without “guidelines” from the duopoly parties.