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Taylor Griggs writes in the Portland Mercury:
"The signature-gathering campaign for the Safer Portland initiative, AKA the proposal to divert 25 percent of the Portland Clean Energy Fund to hiring cops, submitted more than 62,000 signatures to the city yesterday. That’s well over 40,000, which is the required amount to make it onto the ballot. But the city still needs to verify the signatures before it can officially qualify for the November ballot. Remember, this is the same campaign that is the subject of dozens of complaints to the Oregon Secretary of State’s office, with people alleging paid canvassers were trained to mislead voters about the initiative in order to get them to sign the petition. The Secretary of State has opened an investigation into the campaign, but the investigation timeline is unclear."