I'm dropping mine off today, I always plan on doing it the moment I get it and always end up dropping it off a day or two before the election.
Also, no one vote for Sherry Hall, she fucking sucks.
The difficulty with Sherry Hall’s reign of terror is no one even bothers filling out the nonpartisan sections! PLEASE vote for Catherine McMullen for Clackamas county clerk!
Got mine in early. After Sherry Hall’s cavalier attitude about totally fucking up the count last time I wanted to make sure she had it well in advance. Here’s hoping she gets shown the door after tomorrow.
Put my ballot in the library book drop on October 25. Got the email that it was received the very same day. Got the email that it had been counted the following day. Voting in Oregon is amazing.
Everything ended up working out ok, but I had a different experience this year. I put my ballot in the library book drop box. I didn’t get the notification it was received that day or the next, so on the second day after dropping it off I called the elections office. I spoke to a nice woman who told me she would look into it. The next day, she calls me back, and tells me that apparently my ballot had fallen into the crack between the box and the wall, so the ballot collector missed it. They found the ballot, and I got the official notification that it was counted.
I have no reason to believe anything malicious happened, but I just wanted to post this as a reminder to make sure you get the notification saying your ballot was counted after you put it in the book drop. You should get the notification by the next day.
I just wish they put the same effort in mailing out their ballots as they do their parking citations, because that came in the mail faster than a speeding bullet :(
28 questions to answer was a lot. I turned my ballot in a week ago; my spouse has hers filled out and signed/sealed and we plan to drop it off tonight while we spend $2 to fantasize about becoming instant billionaires.
There's also about a 4 day lag between when a ballot is mailed and marked as in.
So after tomorrow, postmarks count, they won't have even collected all the ballots until Saturday.
USPS mail carrier here. Times on collection boxes are heavily monitored and scanned at collection. They are not allowed to collect any mail until after the posted time. As long as you drop the mail before the time that is posted, it will go out for that day. Also, today and tomorrow the post office manual sorts ballots out from the main stream of mail and prioritizes them.
Oh, I agree. I remember too well the whole "post marks don't count" era and phone banking to tell people it's too late to mail and they need to either use a dropbox or hand deliver to county elections.
Only 43.7% of eligible democrats so far, compared to 48.3% eligible republicans. It’s still about a 91k vote difference in favor of democrat returned votes, but 207k non-registered votes are there as well.
GO VOTE!
I'm not questioning you here, just more curious...why is Oregon different than other states with early voting? Democrats tend to utilize early voting more than Republicants in other states, and wondering why Oregon is an outlier. If you happen to know, that is.
Also, why does a state that literally mails every registered voter a ballot (and a voters guide booklet!), not have better mid-term turnout?
Because in other states Democrats vote early to avoid the hassle of voting day-of. Here there's no hassle, especially in Multnomah County where there are lots of drop boxes. In Georgia, say, Democratic early voting is a reaction to voter suppression. Here there is no voter suppression.
As for turnout, we have the highest voter registration rate in the country thanks to moter-voter. So what looks like mediocre turnout is actually close to the highest anywhere in terms of total population.
Reminder that though registered Republicans compose around 17% of the total population of Oregon and 24% of all eligible voters, they can fuck up 100% of your day.
I got mine in on day 1. 10/20. Couldn't wait to be done.
Plus, if you get the ballot in ASAP, that gets you off the "this person has not yet voted" lists.
So did my husband and I. Got our ballots in the mail, were thoroughly informed and ready, and dropped our ballots off in the box that same night. Maybe it's because as a married gay couple, we have a lot on the line, and this election will affect us, even indirectly. The decisions about who is in charge and who is elected into leadership roles in Oregon will affect the rights of the entire LGBTQ+ community, women, and people of color specifically, as the GOP has directly threatened our rights and liberties with aggressive policies toward abortion, voting rights, trans rights, and are threatening to take away marriage equality. This election will have consequences, so please please vote.
I know it sounds hyperbolic, but this is the most important election of our lives, just like the last one, and just like the next one should democracy not crumble. Every election going forward will be the most important because the stakes are real and high and these are abnormal, unprecedented times. Apathy cannot be allowed to be the death knell of democracy, but it is a very real possibility if people do not go out and vote.
Your vote counts. Your vote is important. Your vote does make a difference. Please, please, I beg of you please, do not sit this vote out. Please vote. Please.
Oh, definitely, and given what Thomas said in the wake of the Roe ruling, your ability to even BE married is at real risk.
But don't discount the importance of Oregon either.
The Republicans need to flip 5 house and 1 Senate seat in order to gain control.
OR-5 is at risk, so is OR-6 and OR-4, without DeFazio, is WAY closer than it should be.
The idea that the house could flip and 3 of the 5 needed seats could come from Oregon, frankly, sickens me.
That's correct. The campaigns have lists of who has voted and who has not provided by state elections.
You get off those lists by voting.
Unfortunately tte bulk postcards are targeted by zip code so there's no way out of that one. :(
I always worry something weird will happen and I like to give myself enough time to go to the election office if need be to fix an error or a signature miss match or something. But I was solid on who I was voting for for awhile now so I don't necessarily need the extra time.
Don't know how representative they are of the whole, but a very loud subset of Republicans online plan to hold on to their ballot until election day because they believe Dems will harvest just enough votes to beat them. They also believe vote by mail is rife with fraud and see turning it in on election day as the closest thing to in-person voting they cand do.
I think this is all asinine, but if they represent a large share of the votes not yet turned in we may be fucked.
MultCo is the most likely to use the drop boxes on Election Day due to greater access. This year it matters less as postmark counts.
For very close races we may not get a winner until the weekend as ballots mailed on Tuesday likely won’t be received until Thurs or even Fri.
I don’t think they believe vote-by-mail is fraudulent, but rather the strategy is to get a large portion of mail in ballots invalidated on technicalities, hence them not mailing in.
They can reject just enough ballots for signature verification to make the difference in a toss-up election. Here's an anecdotal experience I witnessed last election. The ballot of a friend's wife was returned for signature verification. Her signature is very simple and even a 5yr old can forge it without practicing, so it made no sense it was returned at all. She is a registered Republican, my friend is unaffiliated. They live in an area dominated by registered Republicans. At first, they didn't think much about it, but when my friend handed the corrected signature ballot to the mailman directly, the mailman shared he had tons of ballots to return for signature reasons and he had never seen that volume before. These ballots have 5 business days to correct their signatures and resubmit. By that point, most election races are called and most don't bother.
Voting on election day makes this kind of potential shenanigans much harder to pull off.
> They can reject just enough ballots for signature verification to make the difference in a toss-up election.
But de-legitimizing the "others" ballots has nothing to do with holding their own ballots.
"They" are the election officials. Republican voters are holding on to their own ballots until election day to make it much harder to coordinate returning ballots to heavily republican neighborhoods for signature verification.
So you're saying they are running a convoluted voting official DDoS to prevent signature verification for old/dumb/signature-incompetent people who skew Republican? This still seems counterproductive because any invalidated ballot simply won't be counted.
> This still seems counterproductive because any invalidated ballot simply won't be counted.
That is incorrect. If the signature is slightly off, voter's are given the opportunity to re-sign it.
Rejecting entire neighborhood for additional signature scrutiny is much easier if all ballots have been submitted ahead of time.
I'm not going to comment on your qualifications of the voters, because it is not helpful to the discussion and reeks of elitism.
In the case of my friend, the signature was a simple cursive A and should not have been returned for re-signing.
It is correct. There's a bunch of non-sequitur here.
The assumption is the DDOS prevents or makes-arduous the opportunity to re-sign it, thus invalidating it. Otherwise what's the point of delaying stuffing the ballot until tomorrow?
My comments are simply a reflection of anybody - including you - unable to articulate clearly why GOP voters delaying their ballot until the last moment has anything to do with the validity of alternative (independent and Dem) voter ballots.
As for the value judgement, I'm going to assume you're frustrated at struggling to connect the dots, and not resorting to bad faith accusations. You have no idea what my views on this are, as the entire time we've been talking hypotheticals.
Don't forget too that the reason MultCo is having to vote to give data to the auditor and for an ombudsman is because Kafoury and her cronies tried to block both of them.
If you think both of those are good ideas, then turn around and vote for Pederson for County Chair, you guaranteed no auditing or ombudsman will happen.
The one thing you can count on a Republican doing is the exact opposite of the Democrat, and in this case, if the Democrats are corrupt and obstructing oversight, getting rid of them will only be a good thing.
Read this:
https://www.wweek.com/news/2022/10/19/wws-general-election-2022-endorsements-multnomah-county/
"But after six years of increasing budgets, which will continue to balloon because of the 10-year, $2.5 billion Metro homeless services measure, this year’s point-in-time count of homeless residents found 5,228 people. That’s a jump of 30% since the last count.
Amid such disappointing results, the Joint Office and its overseer, County Chair Deborah Kafoury, have refused to hear criticism.
The office has denied County Auditor Jennifer McGuirk access to data; acknowledged inflating its own success by, for example, overstating the number of permanent housing placements it’s made by as much as 20%; and recently had to claw back a half-million dollars it was overbilled by a homeless village operator that the county helped establish.
Throughout, Vega Pederson has remained Kafoury’s loyal lieutenant. Indeed, the pair joined forces to oppose an effort by the auditor to enshrine an ombudsperson in the county charter. It’s hard to view such opposition as anything but resistance to having their work scrutinized.
By contrast, Meieran has been a thorn in Kafoury’s side, constantly pushing for more data and greater transparency from the Joint Office."
I guess you missed what Meieran is already doing:
"By contrast, Meieran has been a thorn in Kafoury’s side, constantly pushing for more data and greater transparency from the Joint Office."
Kafoury and Pederson have corrupted the process, it doesn't matter what their party affiliation is, they need to go.
I only struggled with one option because i didn't know a couple of candidates. I googled them,one was a republican and the other wasn't. Easiest round of voting ive done since I lived here. voted and mailed ballot same day i received it.
I said measures not candidates. Candidates took 3 min to do. Sorry I wasn't clear. Multnomah and the state had measures that were not so clear on best way to vote for
i meant everything. I struggled with charter reform a lot, but I spent months thinkin about it so I knew what my vote would be. I was ready and eager to submit my ballot
Both my wife and I dropped ours off in the ballot box yesterday.
Made note of all the candidates that were being supported by Emmert International with their super obnoxious Chuck Norris signs and voted against them.
Went out on a breakfast date yesterday wearing a big ol' American Flag tshirt and voted while we waited for food. The looks we got when we started saying our support for Kotek was amusing.
I have a couple of downvote stalkers who follow me around Reddit. Almost every comment I make very quickly gets downvotes, even the least controversial. It's Reddit, so I just put up with the damaged people. NBD.
Not unexpected. If your ballot wasn't delivered until Friday afternoon or Saturday, it probably hasn't been processed at all to be captured in these numbers.
I never do this but I pestered everyone I know to get their votes in and I'm pretty sure in at least 2 of those cases they wouldn't have voted otherwise. Not the biggest impact but it's something I guess.
I don't wanna go blaming any thing nefarious but I've registered two cars since January and some how I wasn't registered to vote. My partner also found the same issue. We never got our Ballots in the mail despite never having an issue before.
Why would you think registering a car would result in voter registration? Information about automatic registration is widely available online and clearly indicates it’s tied to ID/drivers license applications.
“Eligible citizens in Oregon will be registered to vote when renewing or applying for a driver's license or state ID.”
“A qualifying interaction is when an eligible unregistered voter (over 16 years old, an Oregon resident, and a US citizen) visits the DMV to apply for, renew, or replace an Oregon drivers’ license, ID card, or permit.”
I must have misread the information when it first passed and never had an issue until this cycle. That said we both got Real IDs in June and never received a ballot.
If you did that at any point after 10/18 you won't get a ballot. According to the page above there is a 21 day waiting period after being registered to vote in an election. If you were registered before then you should have received a ballot and if you did not should contact your local election office. I wouldn't want to go blaming anything nefarious at this point either if I were you.
This doesn’t include the weekend drop. Should be a much bigger number this time tomorrow.
I thought they were called dumps, big dumps
I'm dropping mine off today, I always plan on doing it the moment I get it and always end up dropping it off a day or two before the election. Also, no one vote for Sherry Hall, she fucking sucks.
Yeah, Sherry Hall can suck my ballot!
Sherry Hall and Tootie Smith BOTH need to go.
The difficulty with Sherry Hall’s reign of terror is no one even bothers filling out the nonpartisan sections! PLEASE vote for Catherine McMullen for Clackamas county clerk!
That is the frustrating part
Checking the box next to her opponent felt so good. I do not understand why my neighbors have campaign signs for her.
I keep reminding everyone that she screwed up the ballots in the last election.
This and taxes. The best laid plans…
Got mine in early. After Sherry Hall’s cavalier attitude about totally fucking up the count last time I wanted to make sure she had it well in advance. Here’s hoping she gets shown the door after tomorrow.
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This was the first year I didn't wait until the last second!
She is fucking up again already. She said she won't have results until Wednesday evening already.
Amazing how one county can be this bad. I feel bad for the part of Portland that's there if the new voting system is approved.
Put my ballot in the library book drop on October 25. Got the email that it was received the very same day. Got the email that it had been counted the following day. Voting in Oregon is amazing.
Everything ended up working out ok, but I had a different experience this year. I put my ballot in the library book drop box. I didn’t get the notification it was received that day or the next, so on the second day after dropping it off I called the elections office. I spoke to a nice woman who told me she would look into it. The next day, she calls me back, and tells me that apparently my ballot had fallen into the crack between the box and the wall, so the ballot collector missed it. They found the ballot, and I got the official notification that it was counted. I have no reason to believe anything malicious happened, but I just wanted to post this as a reminder to make sure you get the notification saying your ballot was counted after you put it in the book drop. You should get the notification by the next day.
Is the email available for all of Oregon or just Multnomah?
Looks like it's available in Marion, Multnomah, Umatilla, Washington, and Yamhill Counties, according to https://wheresmyballot.com/
I never received my ballot, never got the replacement ballot, and had to drive down to the county election office today to pick it up.
That sounds so frustrating, thank you for making the extra effort!
I just wish they put the same effort in mailing out their ballots as they do their parking citations, because that came in the mail faster than a speeding bullet :(
28 questions to answer was a lot. I turned my ballot in a week ago; my spouse has hers filled out and signed/sealed and we plan to drop it off tonight while we spend $2 to fantasize about becoming instant billionaires.
Oh right! PowerBall!
I’m just being lazy as fuck. I filled out the day I got it. Will drop it off tonight.
There's also about a 4 day lag between when a ballot is mailed and marked as in. So after tomorrow, postmarks count, they won't have even collected all the ballots until Saturday.
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USPS mail carrier here. Times on collection boxes are heavily monitored and scanned at collection. They are not allowed to collect any mail until after the posted time. As long as you drop the mail before the time that is posted, it will go out for that day. Also, today and tomorrow the post office manual sorts ballots out from the main stream of mail and prioritizes them.
Oh, I agree. I remember too well the whole "post marks don't count" era and phone banking to tell people it's too late to mail and they need to either use a dropbox or hand deliver to county elections.
Mine didn’t even come in the mail. Currently waiting in a huge line to get another one
Thanks for doing this!
Only 43.7% of eligible democrats so far, compared to 48.3% eligible republicans. It’s still about a 91k vote difference in favor of democrat returned votes, but 207k non-registered votes are there as well. GO VOTE!
Democrats tend to vote late in Oregon, so this may be a very good sign.
I'm not questioning you here, just more curious...why is Oregon different than other states with early voting? Democrats tend to utilize early voting more than Republicants in other states, and wondering why Oregon is an outlier. If you happen to know, that is. Also, why does a state that literally mails every registered voter a ballot (and a voters guide booklet!), not have better mid-term turnout?
Because in other states Democrats vote early to avoid the hassle of voting day-of. Here there's no hassle, especially in Multnomah County where there are lots of drop boxes. In Georgia, say, Democratic early voting is a reaction to voter suppression. Here there is no voter suppression. As for turnout, we have the highest voter registration rate in the country thanks to moter-voter. So what looks like mediocre turnout is actually close to the highest anywhere in terms of total population.
a good sign if you’re a democrat
I dropped mine off. Texting friends reminders too - yep I’ll be that person.
Thats what I've been doing today too. I have several friends with executive dysfunction issues who just need a little nudge sometimes.
Voter apathy is one the best predictors of a GOP win. And a GOO win is one of the best predictors of decreased quality of life.
My friend GOO?
Grand Old Opry
Yes, the one with the real tattoo! (Side note, Chuck D signed a copy of my Goo CD, drew the PE crosshairs through Lee, poor Lee)
Letting the goo win is always a recipe for a mess.
Reminder that though registered Republicans compose around 17% of the total population of Oregon and 24% of all eligible voters, they can fuck up 100% of your day.
I like to wait last minute to mess with the analyzers heads. Dropping mine off after work.
Everyone waits until last minute, including myself.
I got mine in on day 1. 10/20. Couldn't wait to be done. Plus, if you get the ballot in ASAP, that gets you off the "this person has not yet voted" lists.
So did my husband and I. Got our ballots in the mail, were thoroughly informed and ready, and dropped our ballots off in the box that same night. Maybe it's because as a married gay couple, we have a lot on the line, and this election will affect us, even indirectly. The decisions about who is in charge and who is elected into leadership roles in Oregon will affect the rights of the entire LGBTQ+ community, women, and people of color specifically, as the GOP has directly threatened our rights and liberties with aggressive policies toward abortion, voting rights, trans rights, and are threatening to take away marriage equality. This election will have consequences, so please please vote. I know it sounds hyperbolic, but this is the most important election of our lives, just like the last one, and just like the next one should democracy not crumble. Every election going forward will be the most important because the stakes are real and high and these are abnormal, unprecedented times. Apathy cannot be allowed to be the death knell of democracy, but it is a very real possibility if people do not go out and vote. Your vote counts. Your vote is important. Your vote does make a difference. Please, please, I beg of you please, do not sit this vote out. Please vote. Please.
Oh, definitely, and given what Thomas said in the wake of the Roe ruling, your ability to even BE married is at real risk. But don't discount the importance of Oregon either. The Republicans need to flip 5 house and 1 Senate seat in order to gain control. OR-5 is at risk, so is OR-6 and OR-4, without DeFazio, is WAY closer than it should be. The idea that the house could flip and 3 of the 5 needed seats could come from Oregon, frankly, sickens me.
All national polls suggest Republicans will flip the house by a significant margin. Oregon alone will not make a difference.
If you turn your ballot in early they won’t send you all the begging emails and texts?
That's correct. The campaigns have lists of who has voted and who has not provided by state elections. You get off those lists by voting. Unfortunately tte bulk postcards are targeted by zip code so there's no way out of that one. :(
I swear to god I am getting it in tonight!!! (I said this yesterday) We are always last minute here….
I always worry something weird will happen and I like to give myself enough time to go to the election office if need be to fix an error or a signature miss match or something. But I was solid on who I was voting for for awhile now so I don't necessarily need the extra time.
Yep, same. I'll turn mine in tomorrow.
Don't know how representative they are of the whole, but a very loud subset of Republicans online plan to hold on to their ballot until election day because they believe Dems will harvest just enough votes to beat them. They also believe vote by mail is rife with fraud and see turning it in on election day as the closest thing to in-person voting they cand do. I think this is all asinine, but if they represent a large share of the votes not yet turned in we may be fucked.
MultCo is the most likely to use the drop boxes on Election Day due to greater access. This year it matters less as postmark counts. For very close races we may not get a winner until the weekend as ballots mailed on Tuesday likely won’t be received until Thurs or even Fri.
I don’t think they believe vote-by-mail is fraudulent, but rather the strategy is to get a large portion of mail in ballots invalidated on technicalities, hence them not mailing in.
hopefully they suppress themselves and dont all get to turn in their ballots fuck em for being stupid
> Dems will harvest just enough votes How does holding their ballot help with this?
It doesn't ... but reality does not seem to matter. Someone on social media told them to do it.
They can reject just enough ballots for signature verification to make the difference in a toss-up election. Here's an anecdotal experience I witnessed last election. The ballot of a friend's wife was returned for signature verification. Her signature is very simple and even a 5yr old can forge it without practicing, so it made no sense it was returned at all. She is a registered Republican, my friend is unaffiliated. They live in an area dominated by registered Republicans. At first, they didn't think much about it, but when my friend handed the corrected signature ballot to the mailman directly, the mailman shared he had tons of ballots to return for signature reasons and he had never seen that volume before. These ballots have 5 business days to correct their signatures and resubmit. By that point, most election races are called and most don't bother. Voting on election day makes this kind of potential shenanigans much harder to pull off.
> They can reject just enough ballots for signature verification to make the difference in a toss-up election. But de-legitimizing the "others" ballots has nothing to do with holding their own ballots.
"They" are the election officials. Republican voters are holding on to their own ballots until election day to make it much harder to coordinate returning ballots to heavily republican neighborhoods for signature verification.
So you're saying they are running a convoluted voting official DDoS to prevent signature verification for old/dumb/signature-incompetent people who skew Republican? This still seems counterproductive because any invalidated ballot simply won't be counted.
> This still seems counterproductive because any invalidated ballot simply won't be counted. That is incorrect. If the signature is slightly off, voter's are given the opportunity to re-sign it. Rejecting entire neighborhood for additional signature scrutiny is much easier if all ballots have been submitted ahead of time. I'm not going to comment on your qualifications of the voters, because it is not helpful to the discussion and reeks of elitism. In the case of my friend, the signature was a simple cursive A and should not have been returned for re-signing.
It is correct. There's a bunch of non-sequitur here. The assumption is the DDOS prevents or makes-arduous the opportunity to re-sign it, thus invalidating it. Otherwise what's the point of delaying stuffing the ballot until tomorrow? My comments are simply a reflection of anybody - including you - unable to articulate clearly why GOP voters delaying their ballot until the last moment has anything to do with the validity of alternative (independent and Dem) voter ballots. As for the value judgement, I'm going to assume you're frustrated at struggling to connect the dots, and not resorting to bad faith accusations. You have no idea what my views on this are, as the entire time we've been talking hypotheticals.
Dropping mine off after work today. I always turn mine in day before or day of since shit can pivot at the drop of a dime.
Not great. It's taken me a lot longer than usual because so many measures to consider heh. Maybe that's what others are stuck on
Don't forget too that the reason MultCo is having to vote to give data to the auditor and for an ombudsman is because Kafoury and her cronies tried to block both of them. If you think both of those are good ideas, then turn around and vote for Pederson for County Chair, you guaranteed no auditing or ombudsman will happen.
im sure the republican funded candidate is going to get right to pulling back the curtain lol
The one thing you can count on a Republican doing is the exact opposite of the Democrat, and in this case, if the Democrats are corrupt and obstructing oversight, getting rid of them will only be a good thing. Read this: https://www.wweek.com/news/2022/10/19/wws-general-election-2022-endorsements-multnomah-county/ "But after six years of increasing budgets, which will continue to balloon because of the 10-year, $2.5 billion Metro homeless services measure, this year’s point-in-time count of homeless residents found 5,228 people. That’s a jump of 30% since the last count. Amid such disappointing results, the Joint Office and its overseer, County Chair Deborah Kafoury, have refused to hear criticism. The office has denied County Auditor Jennifer McGuirk access to data; acknowledged inflating its own success by, for example, overstating the number of permanent housing placements it’s made by as much as 20%; and recently had to claw back a half-million dollars it was overbilled by a homeless village operator that the county helped establish. Throughout, Vega Pederson has remained Kafoury’s loyal lieutenant. Indeed, the pair joined forces to oppose an effort by the auditor to enshrine an ombudsperson in the county charter. It’s hard to view such opposition as anything but resistance to having their work scrutinized. By contrast, Meieran has been a thorn in Kafoury’s side, constantly pushing for more data and greater transparency from the Joint Office."
you live in a world of fantasy
I guess you missed what Meieran is already doing: "By contrast, Meieran has been a thorn in Kafoury’s side, constantly pushing for more data and greater transparency from the Joint Office." Kafoury and Pederson have corrupted the process, it doesn't matter what their party affiliation is, they need to go.
I only struggled with one option because i didn't know a couple of candidates. I googled them,one was a republican and the other wasn't. Easiest round of voting ive done since I lived here. voted and mailed ballot same day i received it.
I said measures not candidates. Candidates took 3 min to do. Sorry I wasn't clear. Multnomah and the state had measures that were not so clear on best way to vote for
i meant everything. I struggled with charter reform a lot, but I spent months thinkin about it so I knew what my vote would be. I was ready and eager to submit my ballot
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Look at the stats....every year the % of each party returning ballots is fairly the same.
Republicans have been gaining ground in the last decade, can't count on voter turnout as a predictor
Mine was just accepted after I dropped mine off last week. I don't remember it ever being this slow.
I always intend to get mine sent off early, but end up using a drop box on election day
Both my wife and I dropped ours off in the ballot box yesterday. Made note of all the candidates that were being supported by Emmert International with their super obnoxious Chuck Norris signs and voted against them.
Ha. Same.
I'm working on it, okay?
I’m a Gen X’er who has voted in every election since I turned 18, and I always drop off my ballot on Election Day. Easy peasy lemon squeezey.
Went out on a breakfast date yesterday wearing a big ol' American Flag tshirt and voted while we waited for food. The looks we got when we started saying our support for Kotek was amusing.
Yeah! Go Kotek!
I'll be voting on election day, as I always do.
Why are people downvoting this?
I have a couple of downvote stalkers who follow me around Reddit. Almost every comment I make very quickly gets downvotes, even the least controversial. It's Reddit, so I just put up with the damaged people. NBD.
Vote Dem! we can not have a gun nut (betsey) and anti women (Drazan) for governor 😭
Gun nits aren't a bad thing.
I mailed my ballot a week ago and it still hasn't been marked as received.
Not unexpected. If your ballot wasn't delivered until Friday afternoon or Saturday, it probably hasn't been processed at all to be captured in these numbers.
Some republican probably stole it
C’mon Oregon ffs.
I never do this but I pestered everyone I know to get their votes in and I'm pretty sure in at least 2 of those cases they wouldn't have voted otherwise. Not the biggest impact but it's something I guess.
It's everything. If everyone did what you did then we wouldn't be constantly wringing our hands about turnout, so thank you.
Its rare to have 50% voter turnout in any election year. Oregon gets more because of mail voting but even in 2018 it was like 60%.
Jeez. It’s like your vote is worth three.
My fiancé and I are both returning ours today Yes on 112 no on 114 And voting for Drazan
based
Keep in mind that 2018 had a 49% turnout. I’d expect 36% to increase around that number.
No on 114. Straight party line vote. Like always.
I don't wanna go blaming any thing nefarious but I've registered two cars since January and some how I wasn't registered to vote. My partner also found the same issue. We never got our Ballots in the mail despite never having an issue before.
Why would you think registering a car would result in voter registration? Information about automatic registration is widely available online and clearly indicates it’s tied to ID/drivers license applications. “Eligible citizens in Oregon will be registered to vote when renewing or applying for a driver's license or state ID.” “A qualifying interaction is when an eligible unregistered voter (over 16 years old, an Oregon resident, and a US citizen) visits the DMV to apply for, renew, or replace an Oregon drivers’ license, ID card, or permit.”
I must have misread the information when it first passed and never had an issue until this cycle. That said we both got Real IDs in June and never received a ballot.
Have you tried actually registering to vote the old fashioned way? https://sos.oregon.gov/voting/Pages/registration.aspx?lang=en
Yep, that's what we ended up doing.
If you did that at any point after 10/18 you won't get a ballot. According to the page above there is a 21 day waiting period after being registered to vote in an election. If you were registered before then you should have received a ballot and if you did not should contact your local election office. I wouldn't want to go blaming anything nefarious at this point either if I were you.
I'm a minority now!
Dropped ballot off at my office building mailbox on Friday. The official OR ballot tracker doesn't seem to know yet.
I'm dropping mine off tomorrow!!
Just dropped mine off. Everyone I know waited until last minute.
Chill, we're all procrastinating but we're voting. Trust.
Mines already in.
I dropped off my ballot in the mail on Wednesday and it's still not showing up as being counted. Should I be concerned that it got lost?
moved here recently and never got a ballot, any help?