The state's illegally registering 1,250 noncitizens to vote is but one risk arising from the principle of registering people to vote against their will.
Enjoyed your article while on a balcony in the French Quarter, an city and state reputed famous for political corruption that has absolutely nothing on Oregon. many years ago, I believe, in the first of my 5 freshman years I had a ploysci class taught by Sue Leeson. Can't remember the text except that the thesis except situations were a problem iff there is a will to correct it. Unfortunately a majority of Oregon voters seem absolutely happy with the status quo as long as the right folks get elected.
Having practiced defensive consumer law on behalf of a financial services client, I find myself wondering whether the state of Oregon disclosed the automatic voter registration clearly and conspicuously in a reasonably understandable form. Failure to do so can lead to painful and expensive clean up on the back end.
In any case, the opt-in/opt-out dichotomy is hardly unknown territory. It's usually progressives who like to promote best practices in the consumer arena. Binding a consumer to future obligations in one arena because they did not opt out when they had a chance to do so in a different arena is seen as a shady practice. That is because most of the time the consumer isn't expecting it.
There are probably ways the state could obtain authorization to issue a driver's license and register someone to vote in a single transaction without incurring undue political and legal risk, but this Rube Goldberg setup isn't it.
what is the difference between Las Vegas and Oregon? none, the house has stacked the odds.
in 2016 the estimated population was about 4.1 million. today the state estimates 4.2 million. during those 8 years 755,000 new voters were registered. where did the additional 655,000 voters come from?
Fellow citizens: we get what we vote for! Keep in mind what powers government officials -- winning and power, along with salaries in excess of what any of them could earn in the private sector. AVR is anti-democratic because the government is diluting the power of legitimate voters. And of course they make it really difficult to reverse this nonsense (fill out, sign and mail a card to the state within 21 days of receipt)...
I don't know if this is an issue elsewhere in Oregon, but in the Rogue Valley the post offices can no longer postmark mail. instead, it gets sent to Portland where it is postmarked and then sent back. Given that ballots need to be postmarked by election day and be at the registrar's office no later than seven days later--correct me if I'm wrong about that, but I think that's the rule--it seems that the system is somewhat rigged now in favor of the TriMet area.
Enjoyed your article while on a balcony in the French Quarter, an city and state reputed famous for political corruption that has absolutely nothing on Oregon. many years ago, I believe, in the first of my 5 freshman years I had a ploysci class taught by Sue Leeson. Can't remember the text except that the thesis except situations were a problem iff there is a will to correct it. Unfortunately a majority of Oregon voters seem absolutely happy with the status quo as long as the right folks get elected.
Someone do a Huey Long/Tina Kotek AI mashup.
If you recall it ended poorly for Huey and the state paid the price for years. Oregon we'll see
My origin story involves one of the Crescent City's 19th century bosses and the assassination of Huey Long, but it is a long story.
The only way to correct past vote-by-mail, ballot-harvesting wrongs is with 755,000 new vote-by-mail, ballot-harvesting wrongs.
Nobody is going to do anything to fix our election problem..... So it's pretty pointless.
Maybe, but I hope not.
Having practiced defensive consumer law on behalf of a financial services client, I find myself wondering whether the state of Oregon disclosed the automatic voter registration clearly and conspicuously in a reasonably understandable form. Failure to do so can lead to painful and expensive clean up on the back end.
In any case, the opt-in/opt-out dichotomy is hardly unknown territory. It's usually progressives who like to promote best practices in the consumer arena. Binding a consumer to future obligations in one arena because they did not opt out when they had a chance to do so in a different arena is seen as a shady practice. That is because most of the time the consumer isn't expecting it.
There are probably ways the state could obtain authorization to issue a driver's license and register someone to vote in a single transaction without incurring undue political and legal risk, but this Rube Goldberg setup isn't it.
what is the difference between Las Vegas and Oregon? none, the house has stacked the odds.
in 2016 the estimated population was about 4.1 million. today the state estimates 4.2 million. during those 8 years 755,000 new voters were registered. where did the additional 655,000 voters come from?
Fellow citizens: we get what we vote for! Keep in mind what powers government officials -- winning and power, along with salaries in excess of what any of them could earn in the private sector. AVR is anti-democratic because the government is diluting the power of legitimate voters. And of course they make it really difficult to reverse this nonsense (fill out, sign and mail a card to the state within 21 days of receipt)...
I don't know if this is an issue elsewhere in Oregon, but in the Rogue Valley the post offices can no longer postmark mail. instead, it gets sent to Portland where it is postmarked and then sent back. Given that ballots need to be postmarked by election day and be at the registrar's office no later than seven days later--correct me if I'm wrong about that, but I think that's the rule--it seems that the system is somewhat rigged now in favor of the TriMet area.