Increase the marriage license fee from $25 to $35 — a 40% increase! Increases a records search fee or an official certificate request fee from $3.75 to $5 — a 33% increase.

Supporters are requesting the fee hikes to pay for County expenses, with election related expenses being among the top rising costs.   This is especially true for Multnomah County which has both Rank Choice Voting for the City of Portland and a complete bureaucracy of campaign finance laws (City/County) that do not exist anywhere else in Oregon.   During the 2024 election, the City elections had to place ads and do costly public education campaigns to educate citizens on how Rank Choice Voting works.  In the end it failed because 20% of voters skipped Rank Choice Voting elections.  It cost more and it drove voters away.  How do you define failure?

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Rep.BenBowman@OregonLegislature.gov
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Rep.LucettaElmer@OregonLegislature.gov
Rep.JasonKropf@OregonLegislature.gov
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