Drop it anywhere
We just had an interesting question come up around our office: If you live in, say, Multnomah County, can you drop off your ballot at, say, the Lake Oswego Public Library today (in Clackamas County), and still have it be counted?
We just checked with Multnomah County Elections, and they tell us that yes, you can drop off a ballot at an official drop-off location anywhere in the state and it will eventually be counted by your home county elections bureau. (The counties ship the ballots around by courier.) They have 20 days to do all the counting.
Fascinatin'.
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The military ballots will be coming in from all over the world (let's not go there, though) for quite a few days, so there's plenty of time to get the ballots sorted out that come from the various counties in Oregon.
Of course, if in the mean time the vote margin for a candidate or issue exceeds the total of late arriving ballots expected, they'll call it before everything is in. In the case of military ballots, they do know how many are out. There's no way to know how many outside of military, however.
And, as we saw in 2000, once it's called, the show's pretty much over.
Posted by John Rettig | November 6, 2007 1:27 PM
Your example was perfect: Dropped off my ballot at the Lake Oswego Library today (Nov. 6th) and live in Multnomah Co.
I know my ballot won't be counted today, though, so, I just have to be satisfied that I participated.
Posted by jfe | November 6, 2007 1:57 PM