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has the support of Oregon’s
county clerks.
• A state standard for fuels
that will generate less in carbon
emissions. The Senate Environ-
ment and Natural Resources
Committee heard Senate Bill
324, which would extend the
standard past a scheduled 2015
expiration.
• Use of unclaimed money
from class-action settlements
for Legal Aid programs. The
House Judiciary Committee
heard House Bill 2700, which
differs from last year in that
a judge would have discre-
tion to award 50 percent to
Legal Aid and 50 percent to
programs related to the issue
that prompted the class-action
lawsuit.
All three bills died in the
Senate in the past two years on
15-15 votes, when Sen. Betsy
Johnson, D-Scappoose, joined
14 Republicans. Democrats
now have an 18-12 majority
over Republicans.
Two of the three bills, ex-
cepting the low-carbon fuels
standard, passed the House,
where Democrats now have a
35-25 majority over Republi-
cans. The fuels bill never came
to a vote in the House.
— Steve Druckenmiller
Linn County clerk, about automatic voter registration with DMV
Ted Ferrioli of John Day said.
claimed award money in class-ac-
tion lawsuits to the very companies
or individuals who caused that
harm … This is a practice not fol-
lowed in most states.”
Unlike the failed 2014 bill,
the bill would let a judge award
half of the unclaimed money to
legal aid and the other half to
individuals or organizations re-
lated to the class-action lawsuit.
The bill would apply to
class-action lawsuits on which
Class-action settlements
A different legislative com-
mittee began work on a bill,
which also failed by one vote
in the Senate last year, to allow
some unclaimed money from
class-action settlements to help
fund Legal Aid programs.
Attorney General Ellen Rosen-
blum said Oregon law allows “an
unfair practice of returning un-
Repeat for registration
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Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, left, speaks
with Sen. Jackie Winters, R-Salem, during the opening day
of the Oregon legislative session, Monday, at the Capitol
in Salem. Democrats used their new majorities to press
measures that failed in the last session.
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considering it, Oregon would
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automatically upon changes in
driver records, which would
be transferred electronically.
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ed for drivers under 18, those
legally present in the United
States but ineligible to vote,
and a few people such as police
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survivors whose information is
not public.
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tion Act, passed by Congress in
1993, requires states to ask new
and renewing drivers if they
want to register to vote. But their
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per.
“Oregonians have demon-
strated that if we put a ballot
in the hands of voters, we will
cast it,” Secretary of State Kate
Brown said. “My goal is to put
a ballot in the hands of virtually
every eligible Oregonian.”
Though Oregon has histori-
cally high participation of voters
already registered, it lags behind
other states in the share of eligi-
ble people who are registered to
vote.
“I think this is the single
most important thing Oregon
can do to change the face of
elections” since Oregon voters
approved all-mail balloting in
1998, said Steve Druckenmiller,
Linn County clerk since 1987.
But all four Republicans on
the House committee raised crit-
ical questions, including GOP
Leader Mike McLane of Pow-
ell Butte, who took issue with
Druckenmiller’s description of
some barriers to registration as
“repulsive” and “an unnecessary
burden.”
His comparison of the strug-
gle for voting rights for blacks
in the South during the 1960s
with postcard and online voter
registration, McLane says, “is
not well taken… I think they are
radically different.”
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Lawmakers in 2009 autho-
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a judgment has not been entered
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‘I think this is the single most
important thing Oregon can do to
change the face of elections’
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