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If you vote by mail, but die before Election Day, does your vote count? It depends on where you lived. Oregon counts ballots no matter what happens to the voter. So does Florida. But in South Dakota, if you die before the election, so does your vote. Increasingly popular mail-in ballots mean voters can now choose candidates up to 60 days before an election, raising new questions about an age-old ...
SALEM (AP) — The watchdog group Our Oregon has filed a complaint with the state Elections Division asking for an investigation into alleged initiative fraud.
Central Coast parents, teachers and community members plan to bring the voice of children to Oregon politics this fall. For the second time, the Central Coast Stand for Children chapter is endorsing Jean Cowan, D-Newport, for District 10 Oregon Representative. Cowan is running unopposed.
Oregon House Republican Leader Bruce Hanna is asking the Legislature’s presiding officers to convene a special session to clarify the boundary of Washington County’s House District 29. Hanna, a Roseburg Republican, said a special session would restore fairness to Jeff Duyck, who was ...
ONTARIO — He’s a Republican, but candidate for Oregon secretary of state Rick Dancer said one of his goals is to create a non-partisan office and to bring the general public back into the political process.
You’ve probably seen the TV ad accusing Jeff Merkley, Gordon Smith’s Democratic rival for the US Senate, of voting for $2 billion worth of new taxes as a member of the Oregon House. Smith has been repeating the same charge as he stumps around the state.
SALEM — Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Merkley raised more $1.4 million in the most recent quarter, his best showing so far in his campaign to unseat Republican incumbent Sen. Gordon Smith this fall.
Two proposed citizen initiatives targeting trial lawyers have failed to make Oregon's Nov. 4 ballot. The state elections office told petitioners this week that they were not on track to meet the required 82,769 signatures for each proposal.
It looks like Jeff Duyck will have to wait until 2010 to challenge state Rep. Chuck Riley. The Oregon Secretary of State’s office issued a determination Friday saying that even though Washington County elections officials mistakenly assigned Duyck’s house to Oregon House District 29 in ...
A lawsuit that seeks to force a vote on Oregon's domestic partnership law ran into a panel of skeptical federal judges Tuesday.
Oregon's domestic partnership law is back under legal fire, this time in front of three judges for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
