As Oregon kicks off a general election year, Secretary of State Tobias Read is taking what he says is the OVERDUE step of cleaning up the state’s voter rolls. WOW! He is coming clean.
That process could lead to the cancellation of as many as 800,000 registrations. That’s the number of voters Read says are currently classified as “inactive” on the voter rolls. To be clear, inactive voters do not receive ballots, but their names remain on the rolls. Well – Thats is not true.
Well to be clear – on talk radio shows people call in and say they have received ballots – more than one for the same election, keep getting ballots for others mailed to their homes, etc.etc..
Trump’s Department of Justice has sued Read’s office, seeking information about Oregon voters (that litigation is pending in U.S. District Court in Eugene). Judicial Watch, a conservative Washington, D.C., foundation, sued Read’s predecessor, LaVonne Griffin-Valade, in 2024, seeking a cleanup of voter rolls (that litigation is also pending). And currently, a group seeking to end vote by mail is suing to overturn results of a transit district election in Douglas County, and hoping to use that case to discredit mail in ballots. So thats an update!!