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How Portland elects its mayor is about to drastically change. Here are the promises — and pitfalls
The move adds Portland to a small but growing list of U.S. cities, states and other jurisdictions that have adopted a widely used form of single-winner ranked-choice voting.
Ranked-choice voting has challenged the status quo. Its popularity will be tested in November
Alaska’s new electoral system — with open primaries and ranked-choice voting — has been a model for voters in other states who are frustrated by political polarization and a sense that voters lack real choice at the ballot box.
Arlington reverses use of ranked-choice voting system for fall elections
The move brings the Northern Virginia suburb’s experiment with the increasingly popular voting system to a halt for now.
Ranked-choice voting could come to Oregon, if voters say yes in 2024
In November 2024, voters will decide whether to use ranked choice voting in races after January 1, 2028 for president, seats in Congress, governor, Oregon secretary of state and some others.
Should Oregon Adopt Ranked-Choice Voting?
Today on TAP: Not if the state’s progressives and Democrats hope to be winning elections
Oregon voters could decide on ranked-choice voting soon
A bill asking voters to approve the system is among those stalled by a Republican walkout in the Senate.
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Reformers Unveil Statewide Ranked-Choice Voting Initiative
Ranked choice voting, open primaries? New ballot initiative would bring both to Idaho
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
Is Oregon ripe for ranked choice voting? – Oregon Capital Chronicle
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 […]
Two Great Election Reforms That Go Great Together | Washington Monthly
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.
Ranked choice voting’s Big Adventure on November 8
RCV is on the ballot in a record 10 locations; and being used for elections in 12 other locations
DEMS KNEW, COVERED UP, $500K FTX DONATION NOT FROM BANK
"I will keep my mouth shut for sure." - DPO staffer who knew DPO misreported source of its biggest contribution ever
FTX & Democratic Party of Oregon
Oregon Rebate Amount Was $750 per Person but Now It’s $1,600
Montana Supreme Court allows signatures of inactive voters to count on ballot petitions
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.
Murmurs: Kotek Opposes Corporate Tax Measure
Kotek opposes tax ballot measure
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
Voter Proposal Would Give Oregonians $750 Each
strongIP 17 already has opponents including business groups and Gov. Kotek./strong
Trump's top campaign money bundler connected to Ohio's largest public corruption scandal ever • Ohio Capital Journal
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.
Oregon Campaign Finance Reform ATA Episode 15
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 ...
A Changing Campaign Finance Landscape
Democracy reform legislation must address the role of money in politics.
Oregon won’t press for criminal charges in case involving Democratic Party of Oregon
The Oregon Department of Justice will not seek criminal charges into a $500,000 political contribution made to the Democratic Party of Oregon.
La Mota cofounders say they gave money orders to rep. candidate Val Hoyle in 2022
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
Marijuana Money in Oregon Politics
DOJ: No charges for FTX $500k OR Dem donation
Nishad Singh pleaded guilty to federal charges of campaign finance fraud; Oregon today declined to prosecute under state law
Oregon prosecutors won’t charge state Democratic Party leaders, convicted crypto exec with breaking campaign finance 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.
DOJ: No charges for FTX $500k OR Dem donation
Nishad Singh pleaded guilty to federal charges of campaign finance fraud; Oregon today declined to prosecute under state law
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Oregon voters will face few ballot measures this fall
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.
Signature-gathering effort fails for measure that would have provided public money for private education
Proponents of a school voucher-like system have failed to collect enough signatures to put a proposed measure on the November 2024 ballot.
Deadlocked Oregon ethics commission won't investigate complaints against Gov. Kotek • Oregon Capital Chronicle
The Oregon Government Ethics Commission won’t investigate Gov. Tina Kotek’s since-abandoned plans to give her wife an expanded policy role.