November 8, 2026
As predicted, the Democrats were able to use the loopholes in ORS 247 to win the elections in Oregon. I found this explanation from Joh Havercroft on Facebook, and decided it deserved to be immortalized on my blog. A big hole in ORS 247 is you can "trace" your ballot- but NOT to being counted:
You cannot verify that your ballot was actually counted. There are three steps that YOU can track and be notified of:
1. Your ballot was mailed to you.
2. The envelope containing your ballot was received.
3. The envelope containing your ballot was either accepted or rejected.
That's it. That's the end of it. When you get notification that your "ballot" (and it is actually the envelope containing your ballot) was accepted, what happens next is your envelope is opened and the ballot is removed and separated from the envelope. The empty envelope is stored for a certain period of time for auditing purposes. The ballot inside the envelope is removed and placed in a pile to go through the tabulating machine. The ballot itself has no marking on it that allows it to be traced back to the envelope it was removed from or to the person who marked it. Because of the anonymity of voting in Oregon, you can only hope and/or trust the Democrat controlled government in Oregon properly processed and counted your ballot, but it is impossible to verify that they did.
Some counties, when notifying you of the accepted status includes the word "counted". All that means is that your ballot was removed from the envelope and placed in the queue to be counted.
What I would like to see is a formal announcement of the number of envelopes that were accepted v. the number of ballots counted. I'll bet those two numbers don't equal each other. But the Democrats will never release that information.
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