Voting time!
May. 2nd, 2020 06:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petrea_mitchellOregon has an election coming up on the 19th, which is expected to have no particular extra drama despite the times because Oregon has been 100% vote-by-mail since 1998. Yes, now that you ask, we are feeling a bit smug about this.
I dropped my vote in the mailbox today. This is the first time in several years I've actually involved the postal service in my vote, since there's a 24/7 secure drop box at the county elections office, which is conveniently located near a light-rail stop. This being a bad time to be on public transit, though, into the mailbox it goes.
Incidentally, although vote-by-mail is currently accused of being favorable to Democrats, the local paper recently reminded us that Oregon's first vote-by-mail election was instituted by a Republican secretary of state over the objections of a Democratic governor.
I dropped my vote in the mailbox today. This is the first time in several years I've actually involved the postal service in my vote, since there's a 24/7 secure drop box at the county elections office, which is conveniently located near a light-rail stop. This being a bad time to be on public transit, though, into the mailbox it goes.
Incidentally, although vote-by-mail is currently accused of being favorable to Democrats, the local paper recently reminded us that Oregon's first vote-by-mail election was instituted by a Republican secretary of state over the objections of a Democratic governor.
