Voting by mail

The news comes as immigration and allegations of voter fraud animate Republican politics nationally.

Rogue Valley postal workers will hold a rally next week to raise awareness about the consolidation of some mail services up to Portland ahead of the November election.

As of Tuesday morning, only 33.6% of the state’s registered voters had returned their ballots.

Despite a pause in a national plan to consolidate postal services, the effects have already taken root in Oregon. State and local lawmakers are calling for changes to post office operations in Southern Oregon.

If you’re still waiting to return your ballot for the Oregon primary election, use an official drop box. Recent changes to mail processing in Oregon have led to questions about the speed of the postal service.

Three Oregon Republicans running to control the state’s elections have all stoked false claims of voter fraud and indicated they want to end Oregon’s decades-long tradition of running elections by mail.

Two weeks after the California primary, only 12 of 58 counties have finished counting votes. While election officials say they need time to verify ballots, two new laws could help speed up the count.

It’s a common complaint that it takes so long for election officials to finish counting votes. But there are ways to get your ballot to count in the first round of results.

Former President Donald Trump claims mail balloting is rife with fraud. But to win more elections, the state GOP is expanding its efforts to collect mail ballots to boost turnout.

Though they often spark fierce partisan fighting, most changes to voting laws do little to affect overall turnout, much less election results. But one fast-growing reform appears to stand out as an exception.

A federal judge has tossed a lawsuit intended to end mail voting and electronic voting tabulation in Oregon, saying “generalized grievances” about the state’s elections aren’t enough to give a group of unsuccessful Republican candidates and other election deniers standing to sue.

Oregon’s senior senator and congressman are renewing their efforts to expand the mail voting system Oregon pioneered more than two decades ago to the rest of the nation.