EDITORIAL: Ranked-choice voting coming to your ballot

The Observer, La Grande, Ore.
·2 min read

Jul. 5—Out of this legislative session so boisterous, so stop/start, comes a new way for Oregon voters to choose who represents them.

If House Bill 2004 passes, voters won't just choose the person they want to win the election. They will be ranking their choices for president and vice president of the United States, United States senator, representative in Congress, governor, secretary of state, state treasurer, attorney general and more.

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