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Liquor stores could be up for vote
City residents may get to vote on liquor stores in November
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Package liquor will again be a question in McMinnville this year, provided proponents can get the measure on the November ballot.
Package liquor will again be a question in McMinnville this year, provided proponents can get the measure on the November ballot -- something they’ve failed to do the last two elections.“There’s already a petition circulating but it appears most of the people signing it aren’t bothering to read the wording,” said election administrator Donna Smith of the first petition of signatures submitted to the Election Commission.Smith estimates it will take 254 signatures of registered McMinnville city voters to get the measure on the November municipal ballot. The first petition submitted contained 20 pages of signatures. However, after all were researched, only 46 names were valid city voters, meaning liquor proponents are one-fifth of the way to their goal.“To sign a petition to have liquor put on the ballot, and for it to be counted, you have to be a resident of the city, a registered voter and live at the residence where you are registered,” Smith said, noting the majority of those who signed the first petition failed to follow the rules written at the top.