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Voter info available online
■ Lengthy voters pamphlet is
placed on the Web in hopes of
increasing accessibility and
voter participation
By Andrew Adams
Oregon Daily Emerald
To help Oregon residents get a
head start on reading this year’s
general election voter’s pamphlet,
which will surpass many Oregon
phone books in size, the secretary
of state’s office posted all the mate
rial on the
Internet
this week.
Hard
copies of
the pam
phlet are
due to be
mailed
Oct. ll,
and the
secretary
of state’s
office
hopes the
early Internet release will give vot
ers more time to study election is
sues.
Only information on the state
measures is available at the site
right now, but the office plans to
add the candidate information
when the print copy of the voter’s
guide is released on Oct. 18.
The pamphlet, at www.ore
gonvotes.com, will spare voters the
task of thumbing through the 376
page printed voter’s pamphlet, to
be mailed out on Oct. 11, said Pad
dy McGuire, chief of staff for the
secretary of state’s office.
“It’s about as long as the Eugene
Springfield white pages, and it’s
the first voter’s pamphlet to be
bound like a phone book,” he said.
McGuire said the pamphlet was
placed online because of its size
and to inform voters living outside
the state.
“On the very first day the site
was up, we received an e-mail
from an Oregonian living in Scot
land who found a problem with
one of the site’s links,” McGuire
said. “That’s pretty instantaneous
results that folks all over the globe
are using it.” McGuire added that
the problem was quickly solved.
Every registered voter will still
be receiving a copy of the voter’s
guide, so there won’t be any re
duced cost from posting the pam
phlet on the Internet. But McGuire
said the secretary of state’s office
received non-profit bulk rate
postage from the post office and
will save money through that re
duced rate. He said the state saved
approximately $700,000 through
the rate, which reduced mailing
costs from $1.2 million to about
$450,000.
Annette Newingham, Lane
County elections manager, said the
information online will help voters
understand the issues, but couldn’t
say whether or not that will im
prove voter turnout.
“I’m not really sure if that’s go
ing to be a factor,” she said.
Information on the two Lane
County bond measures — 20-38
and 20-39 for a forest work camp
for minor offenders and jail im
provements — is available at the
Lane County Web site:
www.co.lane.or.us.
Brian Tanner, the state affairs co
ordinator for the ASUO, said the
Web site should help students find
voter information. He added that
the ASUO will be putting together
its own guide about measures that
will have a direct effect on higher
education: as for other state meas
ures, the Web site would be a bet
ter source than the bulky pam
phlet.
“I don’t think any student in
their right mind with all the other
reading they have to do anyway
would look through [the voter’s
pamphlet],” he said.
Citizen input needed for TransPlan
■ City planners are requesting information from Eugene
residents regarding their uses of automobiles, as well as
alternative transit methods for an area transportation plan
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Community members have the
opportunity, through Oct. 6, to tell
city planners exactly what stan
dards should be used to measure
TransPlan’s effectiveness in reduc
ing dependency on automobiles.
TransPlan is the city’s 20-year
public transportation plan, which
has been in the development stage
for seven years. The standards
TransPlan officials adopt will
gauge the city’s success in reduc
ing the use of single-occupancy
vehicles and promoting alternative
transportation, such as buses, bi
cycles and carpools.
The state has another standard
— miles traveled in cars per capita
— but the TransPlan standards
will be more complex. The stan
dards include the increased per
centages per capita of non-auto
mobile trips, households with
access to rapid bus transit systems,
miles of rapid transit bus routes,
acres of bike paths, and develop
ment in densely populated com
munities.
“What we are asking the public
is whether or not they think these
standards go far enough and
whether they feel the measures are
realistic,” said Lee Shoemaker, a
senior project member for Trans
Plan. “The state has a regulation
that we reduce vehicle miles trav
eled by five percent. We believe
that this plan will keep vehicle
miles traveled flat, while increas
ing the availability of alternative
forms of transportation.”
In order for TransPlan’s alterna
tive measures to be affirmed, state
and local officials must approve
them.
“The state is certainly going to
hold our feet over the fire to make
sure we are tracking our progress,”
said Peter Watt, a TransPlan com
mittee member. “My feeling is that
we’ve done a good job of coming
up with alternative measures, and
the state will see that we have
made a sincere effort to come up
with alternative ways to track
progress. I think the measures will
pass.”
4 C What we are asking
the public is whether or
not they think these stan
dards go far enough and
whether they feel the
measures are realistic.
Lee Shoemaker
Senior project member
TransPlan
According to Watt and Shoe
maker, there hasn’t been much
public response to the measures.
People have shown more interest
in TransPlan itself than in how the
city will track its effectiveness,
they said.
“I think that these measures
seem pretty effective because it
looks at other ways of getting
around — not just one thing,” said
University student Alicia Loren
zetti. “Also, checking to see how
many cars are left at home because
people have another way; basical
ly seeing how many people don’t
have another way to get around.”
Comments on the alternative
plan performance measures must
be submitted in writing. For more
information call Shoemaker at
682-4355 or e-mail him at
Ishoemaker@lane.cog.or.us.
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