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A bill asking voters to approve the system is among those stalled by a Republican walkout in the Senate.

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho voters could soon decide whether to have open primary elections and whether to choose candidates in order of preference, through a burgeoning method called ranked choice

With three serious gubernatorial candidates on the ballot in November and the theoretical possibility of a new governor elected with 34% of the vote, Oregon might consider an election tool that recently got a lot of attention in Alaska and seems ripe for consideration here: ranked choice voting.  The probability – at least, if polling […]

Ranked-choice voting brings numerous benefits and one downside: It requires voters to spend more time with the ballot. Vote by mail gives them that time.

RCV is on the ballot in a record 10 locations; and being used for elections in 12 other locations

"I will keep my mouth shut for sure." - DPO staffer who knew DPO misreported source of its biggest contribution ever

Montana's Supreme Court is allowing the signatures of inactive voters to count on petitions seeking to qualify constitutional initiatives for the November ballot, including one to protect abortion rights.

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon OregonWatchdog.com Willamette Week is reporting that Oregon Governor Tina Kotek is opposing Initiative Petition #17 which is a measure heading to the November ballot that taxes large businesses 3% as a way to bring in a haul of tax cash and then dole it out to

strongIP 17 already has opponents including business groups and Gov. Kotek./strong

FirstEnergy was the company behind the largest political bailout and bribery scandal in Ohio history. This week, Sludge reported that Trump’s top campaign money bundler advised FirstEnergy on its contributions to a dark money group that pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in that scandal.

After a tsunami of campaign spending on the 2022 governor’s race in Oregon – a record-breaking $70 million – a broad coalition and lawmakers worked together ...

Democracy reform legislation must address the role of money in politics.

The Oregon Department of Justice will not seek criminal charges into a $500,000 political contribution made to the Democratic Party of Oregon.

Sworn declarations of Aaron Mitchell and Rosa Cazares say the cannabis couple communicated with Hoyle's office about federal agency filings as recently as September 2023

Nishad Singh pleaded guilty to federal charges of campaign finance fraud; Oregon today declined to prosecute under state law

The Oregon Department of Justice announced Wednesday that did not find enough evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that former FTX executive Nishad Singh and state Democratic Party leaders knowingly misreported the source of the crypto trading company's 2022 donation.

Nishad Singh pleaded guilty to federal charges of campaign finance fraud; Oregon today declined to prosecute under state law

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Oregonians will likely decide just four or possibly five ballot measures this fall as only a pair of citizen-led initiatives appear to have garnered enough signatures by Friday’s deadline.

Proponents of a school voucher-like system have failed to collect enough signatures to put a proposed measure on the November 2024 ballot.

The Oregon Government Ethics Commission won’t investigate Gov. Tina Kotek’s since-abandoned plans to give her wife an expanded policy role.

Idaho – like the rest of the country – is drowning in political money. The corrupting influence of all that cash, most of it untraceable as to its origin, is hiding in plan sight.  By general agreement at least $1.5 million in “dark money” – the money of millionaires and billionaires who are trying to […]

Campaign Legal Center (CLC) released a report to help lawmakers, experts, activists and citizens look to the lessons of the 2021 redistricting cycle and understand how a well-designed redistricting commission can deliver fair representation and what the process to get there should look like.

Less than five months from a historic election, Portland may tweak campaign finance rules to stretch the city’s cash-strapped public financing program.

Oregon’s richest man gave another $2 million to a political action committee that tries to elect Republicans.