Oregon voters this fall will decide whether to establish an independent commission responsible for setting the salaries of the governor, secretary of state, lawmakers, judges and other state elected officials.
Polling over the summer shows a Republican challenger gaining ground in a key Oregon state Senate race that could determine whether Democrats regain the supermajority that would allow them to
Oregon voters will decide whether to receive a $1,600 annual rebate through an increase in the corporate sales tax via a ballot measure that has received fierce pushback from lawmakers, local businesses and labor unions alike.
Democrats currently hold 17 seats in the Senate, one shy of the 18-vote threshold for creating new taxes or raising existing ones.
The more than 1,200 erroneous voter registrations found in an audit of 1.4 million records have been deactivated.
State officials appeared before lawmakers for the first time since revelations Oregon improperly registered more than 1,200 people to vote.
The district encompasses Linn, Clackamas, Deschutes and parts of Multnomah and Marion counties. And in U.S. House District 6 — Oregon's newest congressional district, which spans Polk, Yamhill and parts of Marion,
Oregon voters will decide five ballot measures in November's general election. Legislators sent three measures to voters to decide and more than 117,000 residents signed enough petitions for two other issues to be voted on.
On Monday, the Oregon Driver and Motor Vehicle Services Division and the Oregon Secretary of State updated the number of noncitizens erroneously registered to vote in the state to 1,259.
After an Oregon law allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses took effect, the state mistakenly added 1,259 possible noncitizens to the voter rolls.
The disclosures come amid heightened scrutiny of voter rolls nationwide as the presidential election nears. Only nine of the people struck off voted in elections since 2021, the O