Oregon’s voter rolls have a tiny little problem
Oregon is one of those mail-in ballot states where everyone registered gets mailed a ballot:
The U.S. state of Oregon established vote-by-mail as the standard mechanism for voting with 1998 Oregon Ballot Measure 60, a citizen’s initiative. The measure made Oregon the first state in the United States to conduct its elections exclusively by mail. The measure passed on November 3, 1998, by a margin of 69.4% to 30.6%. Political scientists say Oregon’s vote by mail system contributes to its highest-in-the-nation rate of voter turnout, at 61.5% of eligible voters.
However, from Judicial Watch:
Judicial Watch announced a settlement in its federal lawsuit against Oregon election officials, which confirms 800,000 ineligible voter names are slated for review and removal from voter registration lists. The settlement requires state officials to produce detailed data and enforce federal voter roll clean-up procedures under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA). …
In its complaint, Judicial Watch argued that Oregon’s voter rolls contain large numbers of old, inactive registrations; and that 29 of Oregon’s 36 counties removed few or no registrations as required by federal election law. Judicial Watch asserted that Oregon and 35 of its counties had overall registration rates exceeding 100%; and that Oregon had the highest known inactive registration rate of any state in the nation. In combination, all of these facts showed that Oregon was failing to remove inactive registrations as required by federal law.
One important point: the names being removed are already inactive, and Oregon officials say they do not receive ballots anyway. So no harm, no foul, right? But – why are they still on the rolls, then? Why did it take a lawsuit to remove them? Who polices whether a name is “inactive” or not?
Maybe it’s all fine. But I’d like to get answers to those questions. It may be the case that now we will:
The settlement requires Oregon to open its voter roll maintenance processes to unprecedented scrutiny. State officials must now regularly provide detailed, county-level data on voter registrations, removals, confirmation notices, and inactive voters—including those eligible for removal under federal law. This includes data reported to the Election Assistance Commission, as well as additional datasets that will allow ongoing monitoring of compliance. The agreement ensures that this information will not be hidden behind bureaucratic barriers, requiring timely disclosure and identification of data sources.
It’s a start.
Effing Dems.
But sheep may safely graze in Oregon.
When independent oversight and enforcement is absent, corruption flourishes.
This crap, and other similar crap regarding mail-in voting and elimination of actual VOTING-DAY voting requirements, is doing significantly more damage to our elections than illicit voting by non-citizens.
Betsybounds:
It would be nice to have some data to back up your opinion. We also already know you don’t want nearly anyone to be able to cast an absentee ballot.
We in WA have been saddled with vote only by mail for at least 30 years. It well and truly sucks.
I think Oregon Dems will just fail to live up to the agreement, and need to be sued again. Sadly.
It’s very good that Dem cheating, when it gets to court, can lose.
Some Republicans think they can register a protest by voting in person on election day in states with mail in voting. It is almost universally agreed by Republican strategists that this is a bad idea. It is too easy for the Democrats to exploit the fact that turnout on election day is more republicans than democrats and to make it difficult to vote then.
Today’s little editorial by Carl Demaio of reform California coincidentally is on this topic.
Why Republicans should vote early in California
https://www.youtube.com/live/S7guLlf-6c4?si=Z_jYL7xcBCHzVXIW
I was told by Democrats our elections were clean and without a whiff of corruption.
Democrats are also claiming that the Supreme Court just revived the Jim Crow era.
“But sheep may safely graze in Oregon.”
Don’t count on it, if you follow my drift.
My theory after many books on 2020 election, and other reading is those mail votes are needed for the potential amount of votes. Those mail ballots don’t have to be filled out by a 1 voter, they will make up ballots needed for that person.
Scooping up ballots sent to people no longer at that address is easy pickings.
om on:
The data is available. Do your own research.
Betsybounds:
It is your point to prove.
When it takes a lawsuit to compel states to clean up their voter rolls, this pretty much tells you that vote cheating is rampant.
No wonder demonrats are opposed to any policy that cleans up voter rolls; they are the ones that have organized this scam.
If the Dems knew that all issues of voting were squeaky-clean, that there was no cheating whatsoever, they would tell the Reps to “knock yourself out”, examine this stuff all you want because there is nothing to find. The fact that they don’t do that, in fact they fight tooth and nail to prevent the examination, answers the question beyond doubt.