Under new Oregon law, all eligible voters are registered voters unless they opt out
Under new Oregon law, all eligible voters are registered voters unless they opt out
LarryD2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/1/14
#1Under new Oregon law, all eligible voters are registered voters unless they opt out
Posted: 8/3/15 at 9:33am
While other states are fighting tooth and nail to deny access to the ballot box, Oregon is trying to simplify and expand voting.
Governor Kate Brown signed a first-in-the-nation bill that will automatically register all eligible citizens to vote when they obtain or renew a driver's license or state ID card. Voters are then notified by mail of their registration and can choose to remove themselves from voting rolls; if they do not, they automatically receive a voting ballot 3 weeks before each election (all voting in Oregon is done by mail).
#2Under new Oregon law, all eligible voters are registered voters unless they opt out
Posted: 8/3/15 at 10:29am
What a novel practice. I've lived in at least 2 states before where even getting an absentee ballot was a pain. I'm no fan of the long lines at my polling place on election day.
Thank goodness my county in MD makes the absentee ballot forms available online for downloading. Hopefully, I'll live to see the day in which I can cast my ballot electronically from any place on the planet.
#FactsMatter...your feelings not so much.
#3Under new Oregon law, all eligible voters are registered voters unless they opt out
Posted: 8/3/15 at 1:14pm
This is why I love Oregon.
Stephanatic
Islander_fan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/14
#4Under new Oregon law, all eligible voters are registered voters unless they opt out
Posted: 8/3/15 at 2:25pm
"What a novel practice. I've lived in at least 2 states before where even getting an absentee ballot was a pain. I'm no fan of the long lines at my polling place on election day.
Thank goodness my county in MD makes the absentee ballot forms available online for downloading. Hopefully, I'll live to see the day in which I can cast my ballot electronically from any place on the planet."
I do love the idea of being able to print an absentee ballot online. I know people for whom getting one was a major issue. The either signed up too late to have one mailed to them, or by the time that they got it, filled it out and sent it back, the election would have been over. Understandably they were pissed.
But, I honestly think that voting electronically online is a very bad idea. I mean think about it. If there are people who are are computer savy enough to steal people's ID's from online stores etc, it would be too easy to have a corrupted election as well. There have been alligations in the past of there being similar issues with simple in person electronic voting machines. Being able to do it online would easily cause similar issues but on a greater scale.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#5Under new Oregon law, all eligible voters are registered voters unless they opt out
Posted: 8/3/15 at 4:34pm
How long before the Koch brothers start marketing an "opt out" message to young people? Like they did for the very successful Obamacare.
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