By Julia Shumway | Editor
There’s less than a week left to turn in your completed ballot! At this point, election officials recommend using an official drop box, going straight to your elections office or asking for a hand stamp at the post office counter to make sure your vote is counted. (Our office is conveniently a block from the Marion County Election Office, so I handed my ballot in yesterday and heard foot traffic is up significantly this election.)
But once they’re in a drop box, what happens to our ballots? Reporter Mia Maldonado, who lives in Linn County, spent time this week with Linn County Recorder Marcie Richey and election workers to walk through how the system works. If you’re more of a visual learner, keep an eye on our Instagram page for a video explainer. Mia recently returned from a video training and will lead our team’s efforts doing more to reach people who get their news from Instagram or TikTok and haven’t yet heard the good news about free daily or weekly newsletters.
Also in today's edition:
Business group pushes to open Oregon land
Washington suspends some campaign cash limits
Civil rights groups say feds are targeting naturalized citizens
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By Mia Maldonado
ALBANY — In 1981, former Linn County Clerk Del Riley had a thought: If he was already required to print and mail out sample ballots before each election, why not just mail out real ballots to save money on printing expenses?
By Shaanth Nanguneri
A street ends at an empty field at the edge of Woodburn's urban growth boundary. A new report argues that state lawmakers need to change the land use system governing those boundaries to improve accessibility for development. (Photo by Robin Linares/Oregon Capital Chronicle)
Oregon should open up a “phantom supply” of land in the state for economic development by creating a $250 million industrial site readiness fund, expanding local programs allowing industries to set up across multiple jurisdictions and establishing dedicated swaths of underdeveloped land for future growth, according to a new report from business leaders.
By Jerry Cornfield | Washington State Standard
Washington state’s campaign finance enforcers are allowing candidates for legislative and Supreme Court seats to spend as much of their own money on their campaigns in the final days of this election.
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