Americans are required to register if they want to vote; as of this week, Oregonians will have to register not to.
In front of a packed and cheering audience Monday, Gov. Kate Brown signed a first-in-the-nation bill to automatically register all eligible Oregonians to vote when they obtain or renew a driver’s license or state identification card.
Those who are registered through the new process will be notified by mail and will be given three weeks to take themselves off the voting rolls. If they do not opt out, the secretary of state’s office will mail them a ballot automatically 20 days before any election.
When Brown signed House Bill 2177 into law, she was building on the Beaver State’s history as a ballot-box innovator, which has led to high voter participation. Oregon was the first state in the country to switch to all-mail voting when Ballot Measure 60 was passed in 1998 by a wide margin. Washington state and Colorado later followed suit.
They must be a majority democratic state. I say that with tongue in cheek.
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snood
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Wed 17 Feb, 2016 07:45 pm
@ehBeth,
Yes! THAT'S the way to do it.
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Blickers
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Wed 17 Feb, 2016 09:00 pm
@ehBeth,
Sounds great, but what do you want to bet that Republicans are already figuring out ways to send out counterfeit voter removal requests from Democratic voting neighborhoods?
Here's some genuine, first class conservative Christian thinking fer ye:
Glenn Beck: God had to kill Antonin Scalia to help put Ted Cruz in the White House
According to Right Wing Watch, Beck swiftly called the show to explain that God’s motivation for taking the Justice had everything to do with Ted Cruz’s campaign for president. Evidently, Beck believes Scalia’s death will motivate Americans to elect him if they are faced with the haunting reality of a world without the Justice to fight for their liberty.
You spend all your time and energy worrying about it. But If Bernie don't get in, it don't matter that much. The results will be pretty much the same, except slower. Increments slower.
Disagree. Republicans don't believe in Keynes, so the economy will not do well. Which will affect everyone. Things will not be the same if the Republicans win.
The inflation-adjusted Gross Domestic Product per capita shows you are wrong. See the downward plunge Obama inherited. Please not how he turned it around and got it going right. The country can't afford some Republican who doesn't understand the government's role in the economy.
The only thing about showing GDP growth rates is that no one seems to be able to pinpoint the reasons for it. Economics has many variables that's always in flux, and government really doesn't impact private businesses that much between the parties.
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Baldimo
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Thu 18 Feb, 2016 04:23 pm
@Blickers,
This country can't afford to have politicians who don't understand businesses role in the economy.
