May 9, 2018
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A voter casts her ballot at one of Multnomah County’s eight 24-hour election drop boxes. Election
officials recommend dropping off vote-by-mail ballots at official drop off sites like these if you can’t
get them into the mail by Thursday in order for it to have time to be delivered by the voting deadline of
Tuesday, May 15 at 8 p.m.
Countdown to Vote
Ballots due by Tuesday, 8 p.m. deadline
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M ETRO
As the deadline to cast ballots
for the May 15 Primary nears,
voters are pressed to make their
decisions on not only city and
county governing contests, but on
races for Oregon governor, state
judges and representatives and
members of Congress. In Port-
land, a children’s levy is up for
renewal.
Election officials say Thursday
is the last day to safely mail in the
ballots to ensure they reach the
Elections Office by the Tuesday,
May 15 8 p.m. voting deadline.
Otherwise they can be dropped
off at 24-hour official ballot drop
box sites, Multnomah Public Li-
braries, and elections offices.
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Controversial Judge Pick Gets Hearing
O PINION
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C ALENDAR
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A controversial judicial pick
from Oregon for the U.S. Ninth
Circuit of Appeals will have his
nomination considered by the
Senate Judiciary Committee on
Wednesday despite opposition by
Oregon’s two U.S. Senators.
Ryan Bounds, a U.S. Attorney
for Oregon, nominated for a life-
time appointment to the bench by
President Trump, has come under
fire for writings back in college in
which he made racist, sexist and
homophobic attacks on multicul-
turalism.
On Monday, Sens. Ron Wyden
and Jeff Merkley, both Democrats,
called Bounds an unqualified
nominee. In a joint statement, they
said he was dishonest for failing
to disclose his inflammatory writ-
Ryan Bounds
ings to an Oregon judicial selec-
tion committee. They also accused
Republican leaders of moving
forward on changing the rules on
who the Senate considers for judi-
cial appointments in order to stack
the courts in their favor, citing an
unfairness that Republican objec-
tions from home state senators
in the past prevented President
Obama’s judicial nominations.
Back in February, the progres-
sive activist group Alliance for
Justice, attacked Bounds’ fitness
for the judge vacancy, citing his
writings at Stanford Universi-
ty in the 1990s in which he said
race-focused groups should not be
allowed on campus and used racist
and offensive language to describe
people with backgrounds and be-
liefs that were different from his
own.
Bounds, 44, apologized for the
writings earlier this year, calling
them misguided sediments from
his youth.