While proposals from two commissioners to alter the new form of government approved by voters last year were premature, Portlanders should recognize that building a better government may take adjustments and revisions to the original ballot measure, the editorial board writes.

Portland City Council members will consider next week whether to place three separate measures on a November ballot. Each of the proposals, discussed Tuesday at a work session, would alter voter-approved changes to the city’s form of government.

A group of business, philanthropic and political leaders have given up on the idea of trying to get Arizonans to adopt a system of ranked-choice voting.

Supporters of an initiative to create nonpartisan open primaries and establish ranked-choice voting announced Monday they intend to sue Attorney General Raúl Labrador over his ballot titles for the initiative.

Efforts to change Oregon’s voting system are on the move in the state Legislature and among citizen groups.

The group gave more than $131,000 to the largest committee opposing the Measure 26-228 between Nov. 1 and Nov. 7, constituting nearly 40% of the total $332,000 the committee raised.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland’s official slogan is “The City That Works,” but after a tumultuous few years, many residents feel the city is anything but that. Homelessness and gun violence are surging and parts of downtown are struggling, unable to recover from the coronavirus pandemic and the racial justice protests that gripped the city in 2020.

Nearly two-thirds of likely Portland voters say they’ll back a contested ballot measure this fall to radically reshape the city’s form of government and election system, according to a new poll commissioned by the metro area’s most influential business organization and several industry groups.

Multnomah Circuit Court Judge Stephen Bushong disclosed the self-imposed deadline Thursday during a hearing on a lawsuit filed by the Portland Business Alliance.