The ballots in Oregon's vote-by-mail election are scheduled to be mailed out starting tomorrow. As citizens prepare to open them and cast their votes, it's a good time for everyone to review our state's election laws. One important rule, sometimes overlooked, is this: When completing a ballot for a deceased relative or roommate, you are required to vote the same way that person would have voted if he or she were still alive. And sign their full legal name on the outside envelope. Thank you.
If I own property in Oregon and used to live here, but I've declared on my Oregon tax returns that I don't reside here, can I still vote here? If not, and I vote anyway, can I run for office here? Will I ever have to pay those taxes I dodged?
When completing a ballot for a deceased relative or roommate, you are required to vote the same way that person would have voted if he or she were still alive.
And furthermore don't do what this guy did - not only did a lot of deceased voters support him, they managed to line up at the polls in alphabetical order!
Spirits of the deceased gone to the Beyond can be heard speaking their intended votes when one listens by pressing one (right or left) ear pressed moistly against the TV tube (turned off!) of old-time analog television receivers. That requirement is a Law of Supernature. Enforceable by self-appointed Peace Officers.
I don't get all of the hubbub and mail-bashing. I can't wait to vote by mail for the first time! No having to go somewhere and wait in line with the masses, and I actually get time to think when all of these all these ballot questions are in front of me before making my choice.
I agree BallaBo. Sure it's more ripe for abuse than in person voting, but I don't care. The votes are far more thoughtful this way.
Should anyone show me a systematic abuse that actually mattered I'd be all ears, but for now I'm very happy with the way we do it.
As an anecdote, a friend of mine voted and signed her work signature out of habit. She had registered with her other signature. The one that's readable, the one she signs on birthday cards and what not. Her vote wasn't counted.
No having to go somewhere and wait in line with the masses, and I actually get time to think when all of these all these ballot questions are in front of me before making my choice.
A person can still take the time to think and take one's answers with one to the polls.
I think a Voter's Day could be a special day to go to polls, well staffed not a long wait, but the engagement of participating in democracy and that we have a day (holiday)
to either think about that or for those who don't care, at least know that a special day exists.
Then I would go back to a hand count, the software machines are problematic.
I also think that the ballots sent out weeks ahead favors incumbents and hurts the campaign process.
Charamba, Douro 2008
Horse Heaven Hills, Cabernet 2010
Lorelle, Horse Heaven Hills Pinot Grigio 2011
Avignonesi, Montepulciano 2004
Lorelle, Willamette Valley Pinot Noir 2011
Villa Antinori, Toscana 2007
Mercedes Eguren, Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Lorelle, Columbia Valley Cabernet 2011
Purple Moon, Merlot 2011
Purple Moon, Chardonnnay 2011
Abacela, Vintner's Blend No. 12
Opula Red Blend 2010
Liberte, Pinot Noir 2010
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Indian Wells Red Blend 2010
Woodbridge, Chardonnay 2011
King Estate, Pinot Noir 2011
Famille Perrin, Cotes du Rhone Villages 2010
Columbia Crest, Les Chevaux Red 2010
14 Hands, Hot to Trot White Blend
Familia Bianchi, Malbec 2009
Terrapin Cellars, Pinot Gris 2011
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2009
Campo Viejo, Rioja, Termpranillo 2010
Ravenswood, Cabernet Sauvignon 2009
Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2010
Waterbrook, Reserve Merlot 2009
Lorelle, Horse Heaven Hills, Pinot Grigio 2011
Tarantas, Rose
Chateau Lajarre, Bordeaux 2009
La Vielle Ferme, Rose 2011
Benvolio, Pinot Grigio 2011
Nobilo Icon, Pinot Noir 2009
Lello, Douro Tinto 2009
Quinson Fils, Cotes de Provence Rose 2011
Anindor, Pinot Gris 2010
Buenas Ondas, Syrah Rose 2010
Les Fiefs d'Anglars, Malbec 2009
14 Hands, Pinot Gris 2011
Conundrum 2012
Condes de Albarei, Albariño 2011
Columbia Crest, Walter Clore Private Reserve 2007
Penelope Sanchez, Garnacha Syrah 2010
Canoe Ridge, Merlot 2007
Atalaya do Mar, Godello 2010
Vega Montan, Mencia
Benvolio, Pinot Grigio
Nobilo Icon, Pinot Noir, Marlborough 2009
Portuga, Rose 2011
Revelation, Chardonnay, Pays d'Oc 2010
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 2005
Monte Alto, Tinto Reserva 2005
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Cabernet, Indian Wells 2009
Espiral, Vinho Rose
Vin-Koru, Pinot Gris 2011
14 Hands, Hot to Trot Red 2009
Rodney Strong, Cabernet, Sonoma 2009
Abacela, Vintner's Blend #11
Portuga, White 2010
La Bourgeoisie, Red 2009
Januik, Red 2009
Three Rivers, River's Red 2008
Kirkland, Alexander Valley Merlot 2008
Muga, Rioja Rose 2010
Quinta das Amoras, Vinho Tinto 2009
Mauro Molino, Barbera d'Alba 2009
Garda Chiaretto Rose
Columbia Crest, Two Vines Vineyard 10 White
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Pinot Gris, Columbia Valley 2009
L'Hortus, Rose de Saignee 2010
Maculan, Pino & Toi 2008
McKinley Springs, Bombing Range Red 2008
Trader Joe's Pinot Gris 2009
Montes Alpha, Cabernet 2007
Gran Sasso, Sangiovese, Terre di Chieti 2009
Garda, Classico Chiaretto Rose
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 1999
Picos del Montgo, Tempranillo 2008
Chateau de Montmirail, Vacqueyras 2008
La Granja 360, Syrah 2009
Montgras, Carmenere Reserva 2009
Lange, Pinot Gris 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Cabernet 2008
Kirkland, Pinot Grigio 2010
Trader Joe's Coastal Syrah 2009
Columbia Crest, Horse Heaven Hills Merlot 2008
Trader Joe's Coastal Chardonnay 2009
Vieux Papes Red
Domaine de l'Aujardiere, Chardonnay 2009
Santa Rita, Cabernet, Medalla Real 2007
Penfold's, Koonunga Hill Shiraz Cabernet 2008
Guild, Red, Lot #02 2008
Dievole, Dievolino Sangiovese 2008
Laforet, Burgogne Chardonnay 2009
Columbia Winery, Merlot 2007
Bonterra, Cabernet 2008
Elk Cove, Pinot Gris 2009
Maquis Lien 2006
Scott Paul, Pinot Noir, Le Paulee 2007
The Occasional Book
Hope Larson - A Wrinkle in Time, the Graphic Novel
Rudyard Kipling - Kim
Peter Ames Carlin - Bruce
Fran Cannon Slayton - When the Whistle Blows
Neil Young - Waging Heavy Peace
Mark Bego - Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul (2012 ed.)
Jenny Lawson - Let's Pretend This Never Happened
J.D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
Timothy Egan - The Big Burn
Deborah Eisenberg - Transactions in a Foreign Currency
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Slaughterhouse Five
Kathryn Lance - Pandora's Genes
Cheryl Strayed - Wild
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Jack London - The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii
Jack Walker - The Extraordinary Rendition of Vincent Dellamaria
Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin
Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus - The Nanny Diaries
Brian Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons
Keith Richards - Life
F. Sionil Jose - Dusk
Natalie Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting
Justin Halpern - S#*t My Dad Says
Mark Herrmann - The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law
Barry Glassner - The Gospel of Food
Phil Stanford - The Peyton-Allan Files
Jesse Katz - The Opposite Field
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
David Sedaris - Holidays on Ice
Donald Miller - A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith
C.S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ivan Doig - Bucking the Sun
Penda Diakité - I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Grace Lin - The Year of the Rat
Oscar Hijuelos - Mr. Ives' Christmas
Madeline L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
Steven Hart - The Last Three Miles
David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Karen Armstrong - The Spiral Staircase
Charles Larson - The Portland Murders
Adrian Wojnarowski - The Miracle of St. Anthony
William H. Colby - Long Goodbye
Steven D. Stark - Meet the Beatles
Phil Stanford - Portland Confidential
Rick Moody - Garden State
Jonathan Schwartz - All in Good Time
David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Anthony Holden - Big Deal
Robert J. Spitzer - The Spirit of Leadership
James McManus - Positively Fifth Street
Jeff Noon - Vurt
Road Work
Miles run year to date: 29
At this date last year: 66
Total run in 2012: 129
In 2011: 113
In 2010: 125
In 2009: 67
In 2008: 28
In 2007: 113
In 2006: 100
In 2005: 149
In 2004: 204
In 2003: 269
Comments (17)
Can I use an "X"?
Posted by Langston | October 18, 2012 8:54 AM
Jack, are the expenses incurred in holding a seance to find out how the deceased wanted to vote tax deductible?
Posted by Old Zeb | October 18, 2012 9:00 AM
The rule does not apply to a parent filling out a ballot for a child attending college out-of-state. ORS 216.030(2)(c).
Posted by Garage Wine | October 18, 2012 9:05 AM
If I own property in Oregon and used to live here, but I've declared on my Oregon tax returns that I don't reside here, can I still vote here? If not, and I vote anyway, can I run for office here? Will I ever have to pay those taxes I dodged?
Posted by Jonathan Radmacher | October 18, 2012 9:11 AM
Radmacher, there's a pile of laws, but they aren't enforced.
That's why we just keep piling on more laws to the pile, it makes us feel good, and we don't have to worry about the consequences.
Posted by lw | October 18, 2012 9:46 AM
It makes me so mad I want to "tag" someone. Preferably someone small.
Posted by Jack Bog | October 18, 2012 10:06 AM
LAWS?
You mean we actually HAVE ELECTION laws? I thought the rules were just arbitrary and inconsistently capricious.
Posted by ltjd | October 18, 2012 10:55 AM
Only when administered / enforced by Kate Brown.
Posted by Nonny Mouse | October 18, 2012 11:35 AM
Laws?
They are only for you little people!
No,Iam not talking stature.
If only we had a Secretary of State or an Atty. General in this State.
Posted by BoBo | October 18, 2012 11:57 AM
Is there a limit to how many elections cycles that my deceased father can vote in?
Posted by John D | October 18, 2012 12:09 PM
When completing a ballot for a deceased relative or roommate, you are required to vote the same way that person would have voted if he or she were still alive.
And furthermore don't do what this guy did - not only did a lot of deceased voters support him, they managed to line up at the polls in alphabetical order!
Posted by John Rettig | October 18, 2012 12:21 PM
If only we had a Secretary of State or an Atty. General in this State.
Do we even still have a State, or has it gone "Vichy" on us?
Posted by Mr. Grumpy | October 18, 2012 12:59 PM
Spirits of the deceased gone to the Beyond can be heard speaking their intended votes when one listens by pressing one (right or left) ear pressed moistly against the TV tube (turned off!) of old-time analog television receivers. That requirement is a Law of Supernature. Enforceable by self-appointed Peace Officers.
Posted by Tenskwatawa | October 18, 2012 1:19 PM
luckily ain't no edit-happy grammar cops here
Posted by Tenskwatawa | October 18, 2012 1:20 PM
I don't get all of the hubbub and mail-bashing. I can't wait to vote by mail for the first time! No having to go somewhere and wait in line with the masses, and I actually get time to think when all of these all these ballot questions are in front of me before making my choice.
Posted by BallaBo | October 18, 2012 6:33 PM
I agree BallaBo. Sure it's more ripe for abuse than in person voting, but I don't care. The votes are far more thoughtful this way.
Should anyone show me a systematic abuse that actually mattered I'd be all ears, but for now I'm very happy with the way we do it.
As an anecdote, a friend of mine voted and signed her work signature out of habit. She had registered with her other signature. The one that's readable, the one she signs on birthday cards and what not. Her vote wasn't counted.
-JO
Posted by Jo | October 19, 2012 12:52 AM
No having to go somewhere and wait in line with the masses, and I actually get time to think when all of these all these ballot questions are in front of me before making my choice.
A person can still take the time to think and take one's answers with one to the polls.
I think a Voter's Day could be a special day to go to polls, well staffed not a long wait, but the engagement of participating in democracy and that we have a day (holiday)
to either think about that or for those who don't care, at least know that a special day exists.
Then I would go back to a hand count, the software machines are problematic.
I also think that the ballots sent out weeks ahead favors incumbents and hurts the campaign process.
Posted by clinamen | October 20, 2012 12:01 AM