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Electoral reform in Oregon refers to efforts to change election and voting laws in the West Coast state of Oregon. ==Alternate voting systems== There have been many organizations seeking to change Oregon's electoral systems and laws over the years. The Green Party of Oregon wants to change the state's electoral system to allow instant-runoff voting and proportional representation, noting that both are already mentioned in Article 2, Section 16 of the Oregon Constitution. A bill (SB29) to enable instant-runoff voting for local municipalities was introduced in the 2009 session of the Oregon Legislative Assembly, but it died in a Senate committee. Both the Oregon Progressive Party and Independent Party of Oregon want to transform the Oregon State Legislature from a bicameral legislature to a unicameral legislature like the Nebraska Legislature by abolishing the Oregon State Senate and folding its duties into the Oregon House of Representatives. Historically speaking, the idea of a unicameral legislature in Oregon has been proposed before as William Simon U'Ren also favored the idea of making the Oregon Legislative Assembly unicameral when he sponsored a measure (Ballot Measure 31) in 1912 that would have abolished the Oregon State Senate, but the measure was rejected by voters. The Oregon State Legislature's Public Commission on the Oregon Legislature report also considered a unicameral approach and recommended the state adopt a nonpartisan blanket primary. The Oregon Senate rejected the nonpartisan blanket primary in May 2007 and in November 2008 the majority of Oregon citizens in every county also rejected the blanket primary measure when it was brought to the state ballot in the form of Oregon Ballot Measure 65 (2008). In 1998, Oregon voters overwhelmingly passed Ballot Measure 60, placed on the ballot by petition, to conduct all future elections as vote-by-mail elections.〔(Official Results, 1998 General Election: State Measure 60 )〕 Oregon became the first U.S. state to conduct all its elections by mail. The state began to allow electoral fusion after the Oregon Legislative Assembly passed Senate Bill 326 and Governor Ted Kulongoski signed it on July 8, 2009. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Electoral reform in Oregon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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