▶️ Oregon elections ‘more safe than ever’ as Nov. 8 approaches, officials say

Oregon state election officers need to guarantee everybody that election course of, particularly mail-in voting, is safe.

“False info is actually the largest risk to elections right here in Oregon and throughout the nation,” Secretary of State Shemia Fagan mentioned Tuesday.

Fagan has introduced Voting in Oregon Feels Good, a public service marketing campaign to succeed in voters with correct info earlier than they’re misled by false election info.

“We all know that when individuals kind an opinion on elections, it’s actually arduous to alter their minds, even with correct info,” Fagan mentioned. We need to get to Oregonians earlier than they’ve heard these lies which can be primarily based on the Huge Lie and conspiracy theories.”

Deschutes County Clerk Steve Dennison agrees with Fagan.

“Our elections by all accounts are much more safe than ever,” Dennison mentioned. “We’ve a number of checks and balances to make sure that each registered voter is receiving a poll. When these ballots are returned, we confirm signatures on each envelope.”

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Central Oregon Every day requested voters on the road if that they had any considerations with the election course of.

“I’ve no considerations about election fraud or election safety. I feel it’s all straight up ahead,” one voter mentioned. “By no means seen an issue prior to now. I’ve full confidence in our voting system.”

“I do suppose it’s a secure course of,” one other voter mentioned. “I often ship mine to a drop field, however i believe the mail can be secure.”

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Ross Harden says he’s not involved about rigging, however that the method has points.  

“I wouldn’t say that I really feel prefer it’s rigged, however it’s arrange in a approach that there’s issues,” Harden mentioned. “Issues get misplaced within the mail on a regular basis. What number of occasions have you ever mailed a letter or mailed a package deal and it by no means confirmed up?”

He later gave his concept of a attainable answer.

“Making all of it digital,” he mentioned. “If it’s digital then there’s no probability it will get misplaced. It occurs instantly. However software program and algorithms run the best way they’re presupposed to run interval, so I feel digitizing it will make it run rather a lot higher.”

Election day is Nov. 8