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Dr. Ward
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Kurt Schrader Congress, 5th District
Secretary of State Kate Brown
State Treasurer Ted Wheeler
Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum
Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and
Industries Brad Avakian
STATE LEGISLATURE
State Senator, 14th District Mark Hass
State Senator, 18th District Ginny Bur-
dick
State Senator, 21st District Diane Rosen-
baum
State Senator, 22nd District Chip Shields
State Senator, 23rd District Jackie
Dingfelder
State Senator, 25th District Laurie
Monnes Anderson
State Representative, 41st District
Carolyn Tomei
State Representative, 42nd District
Jules Kopel Bailey
State Representative, 43rd District
Lew Frederick
State Representative, 44th District Tina
Kotek
State Representative, 45th District
Michael Dembrow
State Representative, 46th District Alissa
Keny-Guyer
Judge of the Court of Appeals, Position 6
Tim Volpert
Council, Pos. 1 CITY OF GRESHAM
Jerry Hinton
Council, Pos. 3 CITY OF GRESHAM
Karylinn Echols
Council, Pos. 5 CITY OF GRESHAM
Mike McCormick
MAYORAL RACES
Mayor CITY OF PORTLAND Charlie
Hales
Mayor CITY OF TROUTDALE Doug
Daoust
Mayor CITY OF LAKE OSWEGO Greg
Macpherson
OREGON BALLOT MEASURES
County Measure 26-143 The Multnomah
County library levy YES 61.52 percent
26-144 PORTLAND SCHOOL DIS-
TRICT Bond YES 65.03 percent
26-145 CITY OF PORTLAND police and
fire disability reform YES 74.63 percent
26-146 CITY OF PORTLAND Arts Tax
YES 59.76 percent
State Ballot Measure No. 77 disaster dec-
laration YES 58 percent
State Ballot Measure No. 78 grammatical
changes to Constitution YES 71.76 percent
State Ballot Measure No. 79 prohibits real
estate transfer taxes YES 59.37 percent
State Ballot Measure No. 80 Cannabis
Tax Act NO 54.99 percent
State Ballot Measure No. 81 bans gillnet-
ting NO 66.11 percent
State Ballot Measure No. 82 NO 71.58
percent
State Ballot Measure No. 83 NO 70.71
percent
State Ballot Measure No. 84 phases out
real estate transfer taxes on large estates NO
53.70 percent
State Ballot Measure No. 85 corporate
kicker reform YES 58.97 percent
at all times during the election.
Only two people have the password to the
Unity machine –Scott and another senior
elections official.
The Unity machine is not networked out-
side the room.
The USB drives with the precinct tallies
are all checked and formatted before the
enter the Red Room and they don’t leave
until the end of the election.
After the count, Scott says, a randomly
selected proportion of precincts are selected
for a hand count.
“So if somebody did tamper with that
computer, we would know immediately we
did the hand count.
We’re taking what I think are very food
security measures.”
So what would satisfy Nesbit?
He’d like to see the extra USB ports sol-
dered over, rather than covered with
security tape. He’s also like to see a soft-
ware audit, before during and after the
election.
“What would make me feel good about
the Unity machine would be if the flow of
data could only be one way,” he said. “I
would be happy if that machine logged each
person who opened it and used it, and if
each data transfer was logged. “
Nisbet has a few other concerns. He does-
n’t like to see people giving their ballot to
anyone but an elections official, or dropping
it in any box except the official elections
boxes. And he is a close observer of any
traffic in and out of the elections building.
He says he has no doubt that some people
do violate the law, by voting for others.
That’s hard to detect, he says.
Nisbet says his criticisms don’t mean he
doesn’t trust Scott. He shouldn’t have to
trust anyone, he says. And he acknowledges
that Scott has instituted many improve-
ments in response to the questions raised.
“He has made massive and very good
improvements, to allow us to watch more
closely,” Nisbet said of Scott. “He is going
well beyond what’s required of him.”
great avenue to raise funds for research,
specifically around cancer, and patient
advocate programs. In terms of PAL, she
announced, Hubber hints that it will be
“extremely scenic”.
“It will be on the west side of Portland
city in a positive light.”
Hood to Coast events have never given
out prize money, yet the incentive of brag-
ging rights has made for no shortage of
participants. Hubber says they are expecting
up to 1,200 participants for the Better Half.
Amber Barrett Webster, executive direc-
tor of the March Wellness and Fitness
Center at OHSU is excited for the opportu-
nity to put fitness in the spotlight.
“We strongly believe exercise is medi-
cine,” she says. “We look forward to the
inaugural half marathon this summer and
are pleased to be partners in an event which
promotes health while supporting efforts to
assist those that are battling disease and
injury.”
For more information on the Better Half,
go to www.portlandbetterhalf.com.
Every proposed tax and
bond measure passed in
the City of Portland
Fritz was reelected with slightly over 58
percent of the votes; Nolan posted just over
40 percent.
The State Supreme Court, Position 3 race
was the rare example of a hot competition
between judges, with Richard C Baldwin
pulling ahead of Nena Cook, with 93,847
votes to Cook’s 87,192.
In Clark County, voters turned down a
sales tax increase for C-Tran; turned down a
bid to create a metropolitan parks district by
a margin of two to one; and voted to put
David Madore on the City Commission.
The race for Washington State Senate Dis-
trict 17 showed Wednesday morning that
Tim Probst and Don Benton are both at
about 50 percent of the vote.
Other winners:
Suzanne Bonamici Congress 1st District
Earl Blumenauer Congress, 3rd District
PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED
only a total of 532 votes.
In national offices Oregon saw the Pacific
Green Party’s presidential candidate Jill
Stein place third in the state. Green candi-
date for Congress 3rd District, Woody
Broadnax, also placed third statewide, right
behind the Republican and Democratic can-
didates.
In the race for Portland mayor, Charlie
Hales drew more than twice the votes of
challenger Jefferson Smith. Wednesday
morning’s unofficial count shows Hales
pulling slightly over 62 percent compared to
Smith’s 30 percent.
Dr. Edward Ward, children’s book author and North Portland dentist,
taught kids at Skyline Elementary about good dental health last month.
He also read to them from his children’s book series “The Adventures of
Isabel and Buddy.”
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one of the USB drives that hold each
precinct’s results, he asks.
“It’s like a teenager parking the car out-
side with the key in the ignition and saying,
‘What’s the problem? The car is still there
isn’t it?” Nisbet says.
Tim Scott, Multnomah County elections
director disagrees. He points to security
measures in place:
The ports are all covered with security
tape.
The locked Red Room, where votes are
counted and the Unity Machine lives, con-
tains eight cameras, one trained directly on
the computer.
Observers can view the room and cameras
Health
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While women are a large segment of soci-
ety, Hubber says they sometimes feel
overlooked. She hopes the new race will
help Hood to Coast reach out to a different
segment than they normally do.
“Women’s health and wellbeing and
allowing everybody to have a chance to par-
ticipate in sport at whatever level they are at
is really what it’s all about and how we’re
going to turn things around in this country
and this community,” says Sarah Mensah,
Chief Operating Officer of the Portland
Trailblazers.
In addition to promoting women’s health,
the event will fundraise for the Knight Can-
cer Institute, OHSU Sports Medicine, the
Multiple Sclerosis Center of Oregon and the
Police Activities League (PAL).
Hubber says the Better Half will be a
In addition to promoting women’s health, the
event will fundraise for the Knight Cancer
Institute, OHSU Sports Medicine, the Multiple
Sclerosis Center of Oregon and
the Police Activities League (PAL)
says it’s a great organization that promotes
youth awareness and good relationships
between the police, kids and sports.
Although the course has yet to be
and covering some of the East side as well,”
she says. “Absolutely beautiful. A lot of
great views of the city, the river, the Port-
land region and it will really showcase the
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