Federal judge rules state must let disabled senior submit anti-gas tax argument for voters' pamphlet
A federal judge on Wednesday ruled in favor of a Klamath Falls woman who argued the state violated a federal disability rights law by requiring she quickly submit 500 signatures or pay $1,200 to get an argument against a gas tax referendum into the Oregon Voters’
Pamphlet before Thursday.
Mary Martin, 73, lives on a fixed income and uses a wheelchair, making it difficult to afford the fee or quickly gather signatures against Measure 120 — an increase in taxes and fees to pay for transportation — ahead of the March 12 deadline for inclusion in the pamphlet, she said in her lawsuit filed March 5 against Secretary of State Tobias Read.
The pamphlet sent by the Secretary of State’s Office to Oregon voters statewide details candidates and causes that will be on ballots in the May primary.
U.S. Circuit Court Judge Michael H. Simon, an Obama appointee, in a Wednesday hearing on the case verbally ordered Read to let Martin submit her argument against the measure for inclusion in the pamphlet by Thursday without paying the fee or gathering the signatures.
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