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  • Constitution blocking bill to swap gas tax vote

    02/25/2026 5:28:51 AM PST · by Twotone · 6 replies
    Oregon Catalyst ^ | February 22, 2026 | Staff
    The Senate bill to swap the gas tax vote from a November General election to a May election has hit a Constitutional wall. As a result the bill is stalled. The petition itself on the front page in bold sets the election date. Politicians cannot just move the election date — if they could, they then could conceivably move it to 10 years in the future. Our legal commentators shared this analysis: “In 1902 the voters of Oregon voted the referendum into our Constitution by an 11 to 1 margin. They gave the legislature an explicit message: When you try...