Voters Reject Measure 90, Top-Two Primaries

Tuesday, November 04, 2014

Taya Alami, GoLocalPDX Reporter

Oregon voters rejected Measure 90, a statewide ballot measure that will change the way political candidates are nominated for general elections, according to The Oregonian.

Voters defeated the measure by 67 percent to 33 percent, with 59 percent of votes counted as of 8:45 PM.

For partisan state offices, instead of having a Democratic primary and a Republican primary and then having the winners of the two primaries face-off in the general election, all candidates would have appeared on one ballot during a nonpartisan primary before the top two candidates would square off in the general election.