The Clean Ballot Amendment

The Clean Ballot Amendment amends the Oregon Constitution and requires that any initiative measure that contains 100 words or less shall be printed on the ballot in its entirety, without a ballot title, caption, or explanatory statement.

Under current law, every measure that qualifies for the ballot receives a ballot title with consists of a caption, results, statement, and a summary. The ballot title, with all of its component parts, consists of 185 words. All of those words are printed on the ballot. The Clean Ballot Amendment would lessen the amount of space needed on the Oregon ballot for shorter ballot measures. Instead of printing 185 words, the Clean Ballot Amendment would only require printing 100 words.

In addition, under current law, the information printed on the ballot is the result of a biased, partisan process that rarely reflects the true subject of a ballot measure. Ordinarily, after the ballot title process has run its course, a ballot title reflects not what the measure does, but rather what the political party in power (and the special interests that support the party) wants you to think the measure does. The Clean Ballot Amendment takes simple to understand initiative measures out of the political process and lets Oregonians decide for themselves, based on the actual text of the measure, how to vote on the measure.

As a side note, the Clean Ballot Amendment itself is only 97 words. This is an example of a measure that would be printed in its entirety on the ballot.

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