Wow, didn't realize OR was ALL mail in?! I wouldn't trust that either. Our mail service, which used to be very good in my area has gone downhill markedly the past couple of years. MO has 6 weeks of in-person early voting with an excuse, 2 weeks of no excuse in person early voting, Have to have a photo ID. Mail in ballots if requested, ha…
Wow, didn't realize OR was ALL mail in?! I wouldn't trust that either. Our mail service, which used to be very good in my area has gone downhill markedly the past couple of years. MO has 6 weeks of in-person early voting with an excuse, 2 weeks of no excuse in person early voting, Have to have a photo ID. Mail in ballots if requested, have to be notarized. We still have issues but did get a no ballot harvesting and no zuckerbucks bill passed last year. I work as an election judge and vast majority of ballots in my area are cast on election day, in person. 10.9% mail in last November. Our SOS finally ditched ERIC after years of pressure, since he is running for governor, guess he thought it was a campaign issue, although a group who provided evidence that voter rolls were corrupt was blown off.
Donna, yes, all mail in voting since 1998. Oregon has not had a Republican governor since. Coincidence? Maybe. But probably not.
There is no chain of custody of your ballot once you drop it in the mail. There is no way of knowing if your ballot was counted, all you will receive (if requested) is confirmation that your ballot envelope was scanned. In the 2022 mid-term, 'special' recycle boxes were set up on college campuses for duplicate ballots that were sent out. In one whistle blower complaint there was a notice put out requesting workers to help fill out extra ballots (see battleground oregon.org for federal court case updates). Yes, Oregon elections are less than honest irregardless of what the recently resigned SoS claims. (That's a dirty story for another time). Oregonians have no confidence in their elections.
Wow that is so corrupt! Got curious and looked it up https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/oregon/ Oregon is not all that different from MO https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/missouri/ where the population centers go blue but the rural counties are red. I am in blue Jackson, and they are exporting their rot as high taxes and crime are leading D's to flee to surrounding counties. 2 of them, Platte and Clay to the north, Trump barely eked a win in 2020. R margin shrinks with every election. And even Jackson is really 2 counties - the KC part is deep blue and had their own (corrupt) election board, while the rest of the county - the suburbs went for Trump (although only 50.5%, while KC was 20%). But can't overcome that the population centers cancel out the rural/suburb/exurb vote. I suppose part of OR's problem is the CA refugees. MO was considered a bellwether state until 2012, state had picked the winner in every election for something like 50 years. But went for Romney in 2012 and Trump won handily in 2016 and 2020. A lot of the rural counties were 'Truman Democrats' who had the common sense to see that the D party had left them. S. MO is called the 'bible belt' and they vote their values, many of those counties went 80%+ for Trump. My hubby is a sales rep and travels the state. Says a lot of places people have never taken down their Trump signs/banners/flags.
Wow, didn't realize OR was ALL mail in?! I wouldn't trust that either. Our mail service, which used to be very good in my area has gone downhill markedly the past couple of years. MO has 6 weeks of in-person early voting with an excuse, 2 weeks of no excuse in person early voting, Have to have a photo ID. Mail in ballots if requested, have to be notarized. We still have issues but did get a no ballot harvesting and no zuckerbucks bill passed last year. I work as an election judge and vast majority of ballots in my area are cast on election day, in person. 10.9% mail in last November. Our SOS finally ditched ERIC after years of pressure, since he is running for governor, guess he thought it was a campaign issue, although a group who provided evidence that voter rolls were corrupt was blown off.
Donna, yes, all mail in voting since 1998. Oregon has not had a Republican governor since. Coincidence? Maybe. But probably not.
There is no chain of custody of your ballot once you drop it in the mail. There is no way of knowing if your ballot was counted, all you will receive (if requested) is confirmation that your ballot envelope was scanned. In the 2022 mid-term, 'special' recycle boxes were set up on college campuses for duplicate ballots that were sent out. In one whistle blower complaint there was a notice put out requesting workers to help fill out extra ballots (see battleground oregon.org for federal court case updates). Yes, Oregon elections are less than honest irregardless of what the recently resigned SoS claims. (That's a dirty story for another time). Oregonians have no confidence in their elections.
Wow that is so corrupt! Got curious and looked it up https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/oregon/ Oregon is not all that different from MO https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/missouri/ where the population centers go blue but the rural counties are red. I am in blue Jackson, and they are exporting their rot as high taxes and crime are leading D's to flee to surrounding counties. 2 of them, Platte and Clay to the north, Trump barely eked a win in 2020. R margin shrinks with every election. And even Jackson is really 2 counties - the KC part is deep blue and had their own (corrupt) election board, while the rest of the county - the suburbs went for Trump (although only 50.5%, while KC was 20%). But can't overcome that the population centers cancel out the rural/suburb/exurb vote. I suppose part of OR's problem is the CA refugees. MO was considered a bellwether state until 2012, state had picked the winner in every election for something like 50 years. But went for Romney in 2012 and Trump won handily in 2016 and 2020. A lot of the rural counties were 'Truman Democrats' who had the common sense to see that the D party had left them. S. MO is called the 'bible belt' and they vote their values, many of those counties went 80%+ for Trump. My hubby is a sales rep and travels the state. Says a lot of places people have never taken down their Trump signs/banners/flags.