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   ahimsa (ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Mar-2026 10:29:13 JST ahimsa

   "Oregon’s senior US senator, secretary of state warn of fed voter suppression under SAVE Act"

   https://www.opb.org/article/2026/03/14/read-wyden-warn-voter-suppression/

   "Sen. Ron Wyden and Secretary of State Tobias Read said they would defend mail-in voting and the state’s election integrity."

   "Wyden vowed to fight the bill in the Senate, where it’s expected to get a vote next week, and he and Read vowed to protect Oregon’s decades-old vote-by-mail system."

   #USPol #ORpol #Oregon #Voting #Elections #VoteByMail #SaveAct #VoterSuppression

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     ahimsa (ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Mar-2026 10:29:12 JST ahimsa

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     "Wyden in 1996 was the first federal official to be elected entirely by mail ballots. By the 1998 primary election, Oregon became the first state to have more ballots cast by mail than at polls, and a ballot initiative to move to 100% mail-in voting passed later that year. Oregon became the nation’s first all vote-by-mail state in 2000."

     #USPol #Oregon #VoteByMail #History

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     ahimsa (ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Mar-2026 10:29:12 JST ahimsa

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     There is no evidence that non-citizen voting is a serious problem or that it has any impact on election outcomes.

     "A 2020 analysis by Oregon’s Legislative Fiscal Office found the state’s justice department obtained just 38 criminal convictions for voter fraud across 20 years of votes and nearly 61 million cast ballots. It showed an effective 0.0000006% rate of voter fraud in Oregon elections during the past quarter century."

     #USPol #Oregon #VoteByMail #SaveAct #Resist