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Posted on 07/19/2026 1:06:59 PM PDT by Twotone
Initiative Petition 28, a controversial measure that would ban the commercial slaughter of animals as well as fishing and hunting across the state, has failed the first level of signature verification necessary to place it on the November ballot.
Connor Radnovich, a spokesman for Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read, the state’s chief elections officer, confirmed to WW that the initial sample of signatures the Elections Division tested failed to meet the state’s validity threshold.
The IP 28 campaign submitted 142,784 signatures on July 2. To qualify for the ballot, the petition needs 117,173 verified signatures. That would require 82% of the submitted signatures to be valid—but on the first sample, Radnovich says, the IP 28 campaign didn’t hit that mark. OHS Panel 728x90
Though the failure is notable and a warning sign that the petition may be in trouble, it’s not the end of the road. If a petition fails the first round of verification, the Elections Division takes another sample of signatures—this time larger—for verification. Should the petition again fail to reach the necessary validity threshold, the petition cannot be placed on the ballot.
Radnovich says the Elections Division is currently verifying signatures in the second sample.
The petition, called the People for the Elimination of Animal Cruelty Exemptions, or the PEACE Act, is controversial for obvious reasons. Its backers seek to criminalize common practices, such as animal castration, artificial insemination and killing rodents or other pests, which agricultural groups say would wreak havoc across the state.
David Michelson, the primary architect of IP 28, said in an email on Thursday night that the SOS said 804 of the 1,000 signatures included in the first sample were verified—just shy of the 82% mark.
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Next is not killing cockroaches, mosquitos, or Ebola germs.
Why can’t the western side of Ore. beyond the coastal mountains just slide into the Pacific?
Are they going to outlaw Black on Black killing in the Urban Utopias?
Ban eating. It’s easier.
Most of the worst libs in Oregon live east of the Coast Range, especially in the Willamette Valley.
Used to this in CA. Loopy as they are, the leader of Oregon don’t want this madness on the ballot. It’s not going to make it. In CA we routinely have just a bit more signatures than necessary deemed invalid. Signature gathering has to result in a number that is too big to steal. No way this is making it
Belding squirrels. A real nusience.
I doubt it.
“Why can’t the western side of Ore. beyond the coastal mountains just slide into the Pacific?”
Because that might put out all these freaking fires!!!
Thanks, I think.
I was unaware of such....
I’d say fishing and hunting is a natural right endowed by our Creator.
“Most of the worst libs in Oregon live east of the Coast Range, especially in the Willamette Valley.”
Well then, the next range just to the East....
it’d be so awesome if this gets on the ballot and the fool voters of oregon vote to actually pass it! ... just wait until they then discover they basically outlawed meat!
The resultant over-population of wild animals will cause disease and danger to the animals...
“ Next is not killing cockroaches, mosquitos, or Ebola germs.”
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Damn straight. And the SMALLPOX virus which has been imprisoned unfairly for decades needs to be freed into the wild. How dare humans lock it up!
If hunting is banned, Oregonians will have no reason to own firearms...
Oregon will pass it regardless.
And a shame. I just bought new fly fishing line.
That would be the Cascades. Plenty of good people live west of the Cascades, though. How about just flood the Willamette Valley and maybe set off a volcano under Bend? Still lose some worthwhile people that way, but it would clear out a pretty big percentage of the ones who’ve been trying to destroy Oregon for decades.
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