Marion County Clerk Bill Burgess detailed the steps his office has taken to inactivate ballots of mistakenly registered potential noncitizens.
    • @jordanlundOPM
      23•2 months ago

      It was a clerical error that registered a tiny amount of non-citizens to vote when they got drivers licenses.

      The intentional action is to fix that so the ballots are invalid.

      • @just_another_person
        24•2 months ago

        …or somebody did this intentionally to cause concern about “illegals voting” in a state’s election.

        If this is a one-off, write this off as paranoia, but more than a few Trump supports all over the country who have worked their way into the election cycle have been told to pull this shit by Trump’s own campaign. Steve Bannon ran a whole camp for these assholes instructing them on how to cause chaos and sow discord in the election cycle earlier this year.

        • @jordanlundOPM
          14•2 months ago

          Oh, no, the problem initiated from the DMV, not any elections officials. It’s the poor bastards in elections having to clean up the mess.

          • @[email protected]English
            13•2 months ago

            Correct. Context for non Oregonians, we have a law that auto-registers people as voters when they sign up for a government ID or driver’s license through the DMV. The citizenship check got mixed up on the DMV’s side as they’re supposed to verify it.

            • @just_another_person
              7•2 months ago

              And if ANY candidate is going to point to normally benign issues and claim rigged elections, that candidate would be…?

              • @[email protected]English
                5•2 months ago

                Probably the secretary of state republican candidate Dennis Linthicum, who has actively sued the state to end vote by mail and originally got elected by literally stealing a primary election by abusing filing deadlines in cahoots with the Republican incumbents.

                But it’s OK because he’s a nobody that only people in the shithole empty counties know about, and his opponent has a long history with the state as a rep and state treasurer. Plus oregon very reliably votes blue.