Secretary of State prevails in ballot measure lawsuit
Marion County Courthouse (File/Salem Reporter)
SALEM — A trio of potential ballot measures to change the state’s forestry practices don’t comply with the state’s constitution, a Marion County Circuit judge said Wednesday in backing Secretary of State Bev Clarno’s decision to block the measures.
Circuit Judge Daniel Wren said in an opinion that the three petitions did not mesh with a constitutional requirement that measures be limited to one issue, and that Clarno “properly rejected”…
