I've been living in Oregon for eleven years, abandoning California for greener pastures (I thought). Now seeking other places due to this kind of leftist crap. As with other coastal western states, Oregon is really two states culturally and politically, divided vertically by mountain ranges. East of the mountains are the producers, and west of the mountains are the moochers and looters, as described in various other Gulch postings. I am in Bend, on the eastern slopes, and Californians are flooding into this formerly small peaceful town, bringing with them all the garbage from California. I'm now looking at Colorado's western slope or southwestern Utah. You can run, but you can't hide. Damn.

Interesting the negativity surrounding this.

I'm in Canada, so forgive me if I don't get the way your voting works, etc. And as the article says, I am automatically registered to vote through our version of the DMV.

Is it a bad thing that people are registered to vote automatically? I'm thinking that isn't necessarily the problem.

I'm thinking that the automatic registration <<coupled>> with the mail-in voting is the problem, right? Because then, as terrycan said, there are an extra 300,000 extra ballots floating around.

Am I correct in making this as the connection?

We need mandatory voter registration, that should be tied to tax returns, so when you file, you vote at that same time.

All should be electronic and should last 30 days, so you can vote when you file.

Living in a small town, I have to wait an hour to vote. In large cities, people wait from the time the polls open till they close, and still never make it in to vote.

And this would solve that problem and maybe we could even solve gerrymandering of the districts.

Rule of law is dead in the United States. The sooner you realize that, the sooner you'll start to think of ways to solve the problem.

It IS sad. It is way past time to shrug.

Man, it is really sad. The only good thing is the article I just posted where a Judge is mighty pissed off at the fact the BeHolder Justice Dept actually LIED to him. Maybe something good can happen yet...

Yes, Oregon is the test case for The Plan of The One. The timing of President Zero's announcement is not coincidental.

AR didn't underestimate the ability of our corrupt system. She just didn't think anyone would believe it if she made it any more farfetched.

Sometimes I think AR underestimated the ability of our corrupt system and put Thompson and Mouch in a better light than reality shows today. I am so disgusted with this crap.

Oh NO! Oreogn is the lead test case for the next step in The Plan. Think of it, anyone who has an interface with the DMV gets registered automatically. They do NOT have to prove citizenship if they are illegal, as Oregon will very kindly give them a license. (Even though a REAL citizen needs their ORIGINAL (or a certified copy that cost 55.00) and 2 other pieces of ID to get one). So now Oregon will AUTOMATICALLY register every illegal immigrant to vote (Democratic of course), thus loading the elctions in their favor. As if the PERS (state retirees) and Unions were not enough to get them re-elected! The dumb asses voted in (for the fourth time) a corrupt jerk, in the face of overwhelmingly negative evidence of corruption, just so he could stay around long enough to bail out and give the governorship to an UNELECTED Democrat. Probably the most skillful handing over of power from one caught criminal to an uncaught criminal ever. Better than Bill and Hillary.

Everything , of course. It seems that is what they want, we have an UN-elected governor, who scammed her way in with a corrupt governor elected by a herd of sycophants who just want someone to continue to pay them their ridiculous retirements. Or Union groups using their members dues to buy influence take your pick. They don't call the oregonian the 'dead fish wrapper" for no reason.

Hundreds of thousands of ballots floating around that the voter doesn't care about. What could go wrong?

Is it time to write off Oregon the way that President Thompson, Wesley Mouch et al. wrote off Minnesota?