31.   The statewide ballot measure has bipartisan support.

32.   The work is supposed to produce a package that can compete with the Citizens Growth Management Initiative, an environmentalist measure that will appear on statewide ballots this fall.

33.   Their allegiance is further complicated by a statewide ballot initiative on school vouchers.

34.   They proved that last year when they first approved putting a casino gambling referendum on the statewide ballot.

35.   Those defeats Tuesday continue a history of tepid popular support for voucher measures on statewide ballots.

36.   This year there is a bill to return management control to the DFG, which most likely will surface in a statewide ballot initiative next spring.

37.   Voters have been called on three times to vote on statewide ballot measures regarding abortion, and each time they have supported abortion rights.

38.   When they unveiled their voter registration effort on Monday, Republican leaders pointed out that they have three African-Americans and three female candidates on their statewide ballot.

39.   Portland residents Dawn and Richard Afman opened their mailed ballots Saturday to find duplicate pages on statewide ballot measures, but no pages for candidates and local measures.

40.   A petition drive to place an anti-affirmative action measure on the statewide ballot was called off Monday by the man who started similar campaigns in California and Washington.