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Election workers collect ballots from a newly placed ballot drop box outside the Multnomah County Elections Division office on Monday, Oct. 28, 2024, in Portland, Oregon. - Jenny Kane/AP
At 6 p.m. on Election Day, officials will retrieve ballots for a final time and then lock the drop boxes. This is to ensure all ballots arrive to the Central Count location by 8 p.m. when polls close.
Of those 488 voters whose ballots were damaged, 345 had contacted the Clark County elections office to request a replacement ballot as of Oct. 29, and election workers were mailing replacement ...
An Oregon mail-in ballot for a special election in May 2005. In 1998, voters in Oregon passed an initiative requiring that all elections be conducted by mail. Voters may also drop their ballots off at a county designated official drop site. Oregon has since reduced the cost of elections, and the time available to tally votes has increased.
Voted ballots are typically placed into secure ballot boxes at the polling place. Stored ballots and/or Precinct Counts are transported or transmitted to a central counting location. The system produces a printed report of the vote count, and may produce a report stored on electronic media suitable for broadcasting, or release on the Internet.
Transparent ballot boxes used in Ukraine. A ballot box is a temporarily sealed container, usually a square box though sometimes a tamper resistant bag, with a narrow slot in the top sufficient to accept a ballot paper in an election but which prevents anyone from accessing the votes cast until the close of the voting period.
SB 5011, accompanying SB 5010, would take another step by adding “Property of” whatever county the ballot box is located in; another part of the bill would add “Tampering with this drop box ...
Multnomah County Elections Director Tim Scott said a fire suppressant inside the drop box protected nearly all the ballots; only three were damaged, and his office planned to contact those voters ...