On this day, August 1, 2005, the Oregon state legislature passed the nation's strictest anti-methamphetamine measure requiring prescriptions for many over-the-counter cold medications. Governor Ted Kulongoski signed it days later. It posed a challenge to the FDA in regulating medicines.
Also on this day, August 1, 2019, Calling the state's death penalty "dysfunctional," "costly," and "immoral," Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed into law
SB 1013 that limits the death penalty to acts of terrorism in which two or more people are killed by an organized terrorist group, premeditated murders of children aged 13 or younger, prison murders committed by those already incarcerated for aggravated murder, premeditated murders of police or correctional officers.
Also on this day, August 1, 2020, more than a thousand people showed up in downtown Portland to protest, about three days after the announcement that the presence of US agents there would be reduced. The Portland Police Bureau declared an unlawful assembly later when people gathered outside a police precinct in Oregon's largest city and threw bottles towards officers.
Non-citizens’ registrations go unresolved
In the House Rules Committee’s hearing on election integrity, Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade’s testified that many Oregonians experienced issues in receiving the ballots on time or at all this election cycle.
House Republican Leader Christine Drazan state, “I want to encourage the Secretary of State to continue to press the United State Postal Service to deliver answers and solutions for the Oregonians who experienced delays in receiving their ballots, or didn’t receive them at all.
“However, today’s testimony from the Secretary of State’s office did nothing to give Oregonians confidence that the errors that allowed non-citizens to register to vote in Oregon have been fully identified and corrected.
“Automatic voter registration must remain suspended until we can confidently tell Oregonians that only eligible voters are registered through our automatic voter registration system, safeguards have been implemented to verify citizenship at the point of registration, and that regular audits will be performed in perpetuity to remove ineligible voters from the voter rolls.
Janice Dysinger, election expert and founder of Faithful Elections, agrees. "Vote by Mail misses 4 out of 100 people automatically to start with for mailing problems. Every election there are people looking for their ballots to come on election day. I hear from them and direct them to their clerk. Often they become disenfranchised voters.
"Our voter rolls include dead and inactive voters as no-one has removed these voters per recent Oregon law changes. Now we learned, as we suspected, that non citizens are on our voter rolls. So Oregon elections are being decided by non citizens, dead voters, people who have moved and the people who vote those ballots.
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Dysinger says we should do more than monitor for non-citizens. "Our voter rolls change every election. They are an exploited plot to control the outcome. It all takes place in the dark. Oregonians need to take back their elections and return to the precinct, vote in person with ID on paper ballots that are counted in that precinct that day. Absent voters need to apply each election with proof of ID as military and real Oregonians should do. Machines make our elections a farce as recent court cases show. Count the vote under 'Sunshine laws' that requires, out in the open under televised video surveillance where all can see the count.
"Precincts should be small enough to count votes in one day. More precincts is the solution to counting and posting results to the elections office that same day. No one should be allowed to turn in their ballot late. Election day should be a holiday for voting. Real elections take effort. Oregon did it for 145 years when it was a trusted process, and Oregon can do it again," Dysinger concludes.
Rep. Drazan says: “As elected leaders we have a duty to strengthen our election system, provide transparency for Oregonians, and ensure the continued trust in our elections.” Will she be a leader to pass solutions?
--Donna Bleiler| Post Date: 2024-12-14 12:37:18 | Last Update: 2024-12-14 23:42:06 |
