That was a very good article written by Cyrus Javadi about distrust in our vote by mail election system. I explain the distrust.
In Oregon we used to vote by going to our local precinct. My husband and I would go, vote, and then go out to dinner. By late evening we would know who won the election unless the vote was close.
Then we got vote by mail – that made it so much easier and also less special and it took a lot longer for votes to be counted. It took a lot longer to know who won.
Why is there a lack of trust in our elections?
Well, the first little thing was that a previous secretary of state, and I can’t remember which one now, assured Oregon citizens that the computers that counted the votes were not hackable.
But as she testified in court later, the computers WERE hackable!! So a little distrust with that! Why lie?
Judicial watch recently sued Oregon because they were not following the law in regarding the maintenance of voter roles to remove those who were invalid, died or moved away. Why didn’t Oregon follow the laws in regard to maintenance? There were apparently 800,000 invalid voter registrations! There is a federal law that states that to vote in a federal election, the state must have voter rolls that are accurate and up to date.
There is a real problem with DMV registering people to vote.
That is half of the problem. Here is an article from OPB that tells about this: Oregon’s voter registration errors stretch back further than DMV officials initially indicated:
www.opb.org/article/2025/04/11/vote There are many problems with mail in voting that simply don’t exist with voting in person. Here is a good article by Heritage Foundation that list percentages of lost in mail ballots, etc:
Title: We Shouldn’t Be Promoting voting By Mail
www.heritage.org/election-integrity/commentary/we-shouldnt-be-promoting-voting-mail I conclude this article that by saying there is good reason to be distrustful of outcomes when citizens vote by mail.
Apparently the state of Oregon is very sloppy with producing accurate vote counts with its mail in vote program, while simultaneously assuring us that it does.
