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petrea_mitchell) wrote2023-06-26 07:27 pm
petrea_mitchell) wrote2023-06-26 07:27 pm
Voting improvement coming (hopefully)
Oregon was the first state in the US to switch to all-absentee voting (all the way back in the 1990s) and the first to implement opt-out voter registration. I've been saying for a while that the one big thing we still need is ranked-choice voting.
Well, part of a flurry of bills at the end of this year's state legislative session was one giving us a chance at it. All changes to the state constitution have to be ratified by a vote of the general populace, so it'll be on the November ballot, and then the actual switch won't happen until 2028 if it passes, but better then than even later.
Well, part of a flurry of bills at the end of this year's state legislative session was one giving us a chance at it. All changes to the state constitution have to be ratified by a vote of the general populace, so it'll be on the November ballot, and then the actual switch won't happen until 2028 if it passes, but better then than even later.
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