Something happened to the concept of the secret ballot. It is no longer guaranteed. “Really?” you ask? Well, that’s the way it looked to me when I got my Benton County ballot for the May 17 primary.
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Tags: Benton ballots, Oregon ballots, Oregon voting, primary election, secrecy envelopes, secrecy sleeves
Tags: Benton ballots, Oregon ballots, Oregon voting, primary election, secrecy envelopes, secrecy sleeves
Deprived of a chance to vote? Not so fast
Facebook last week reverberated with a complaint from a Lebanon mother that a particular set of circumstances resulted in her son being deprived of a chance to vote. I looked into it, and the upshot is that he can vote after all if he wants.
Tags: inactive voters, Linn County Clerk, Linn elections, Oregon voting, signature match, voting by mail