MAY 18, 2016
Portland and Seattle Volume XXXVIII No. 33
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CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW
AP PHOTO/STEVE DYKES
VOTES ARE IN
Democratic candidate for Oregon's Secretary of
State Brad Avakian greets supporter Linda Campbell
at a gathering at the Waypost on Tuesday, May 17,
2016, in Portland, Ore.
Oregon
Election
Results
The Skanner Staff
PRESIDENT DEM
PRESIDENT GOP
933 of 1,000 precincts - 93 percent
Donald Trump 240,804 - 67 percent
Ted Cruz 61,590 - 17 percent
John Kasich 59,096 - 16 percent
GOVERNOR DEM
AP PHOTO/DON RYAN, FILE
955 of 1,000 precincts - 96 percent
Bernie Sanders 320,746 - 56 percent
Hillary Clinton 251,739 - 44 percent
928 of 1,000 precincts - 93 percent
Kate Brown (i) 452,320 - 85 percent
Julian Bell 38,487 - 7 percent
Dave Stauffer 14,992 - 3 percent
Steve Johnson 12,474 - 2 percent
Kevin Forsythe 9,442 - 2 percent
Chet Chance 5,163 - 1 percent
In this Nov. 3, 2014, file photo, Diego Valencia processes Oregon ballots at Multnomah County election headquarters in Portland, Ore. An unprecedented
number of Oregon voters have changed their registrations to Republican or Democrat this year, meaning they’re now eligible to vote in the upcoming
May 17 primary. Experts say it’s likely foretelling of a record-breaking voter turnout, especially if the Bernie Sanders campaign keeps its momentum.
GOVERNOR GOP
Most in a straw poll of last-minute voters favored Vermont senator
AP PHOTO/PAUL SANCYA
See RESULTS on page 3
Automakers are reinventing themselves as
“mobility” companies accommodating the different
ways people get around. Ford created a technology-
focused division to invest in transportation
startups. It also launched FordPass, an app that
helps users find parking or share their cars.
Detroit Goes
Mobile
Automakers compete
with ZipCar, Uber
page 9
West Point Photo
Controversy
page 8
By Arashi Young
Of The Skanner News
A
steady stream of cars
drove southbound
on SE 11th Avenue
Tuesday to drop off
their ballots for the May
primary election before
the 8 p.m. deadline.
On the sidewalk outside
the Multnomah County
Elections Office, people
walked, biked and took the
bus to get last-minute bal-
lots.
The results of the pri-
mary election determine
Oregon’s choice for the
Democratic
presiden-
tial nominee, choosing
between
the
current
front-runner Hillary Clin-
ton and the progressive
underdog Bernie Sanders
— along with party nomi-
nations for the state guber-
natorial race.
Sanders ended up win-
ning 54.3 percent of the
vote in Oregon to Clinton’s
48.3 percent, where 65 per-
cent of the state’s Republi-
can voters cast their votes
for presumed nominee
Donald Trump. See more
results on this page.
The Skanner News visit-
ed the election drop site to
ask voters why they were
voting and what issues
were the most important
to them.
An overwhelming num-
ber of voters said they
came out to vote for Bernie
Sanders. Musician Stevie
Pohlman of the band Mope
Grooves said that he vot-
ed “because I want Bernie
Sanders to win.”
Another Sanders sup-
porter said he was worried
that Sanders was going to
be discounted before the
people in the state of Ore-
gon were able to give him
a chance. “I am hoping that
if he wins Oregon, we can
push him through,” he said.
A few voters for Sanders
said that he had inspired
them to become more en-
gaged. Vanessa Kinyon
pushed a stroller with her
infant daughter up to the
elections office. She said
health care was her most
important issue after she
had health complications
during her last pregnancy.
Kinyon said she had to jug-
gle three different health
insurance providers and
pay three different deduct-
ibles to receive treatment.
Kinyon was so inspired
by Bernie Sanders’ prom-
See VOTERS on page 3
Sanders Wins Oregon, Battles
Clinton in Ky.; Trump Wins Ore.
Kentucky primary considered too close to call
Ken Thomas, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie
Sanders won Oregon’s presidential
primary and battled Hillary Clinton
to a razor-thin margin in Kentucky,
vowing to stay in the race until the
end as Clinton aimed to blunt his mo-
mentum and prepare for a fall cam-
paign against Republican Donald
Trump.
Tuesday’s primary in Kentucky
was too close to call with Clinton
leading Sanders by less than one-half
of 1 percent. Closing in on the Demo-
cratic nomination, Clinton declared
victory in Kentucky nonetheless,
telling her supporters on Twitter:
“We’re always stronger united.”
Trump won the GOP’s Oregon pri-
mary, the only Republican contest on
Tuesday. In a sign of his pivot into the
See PRIMARY on page 3
AP PHOTO/ANDREW HARNIK
921 of 1,000 precincts - 92 percent
Bud Pierce 162,106 - 48 percent
Allen Alley 98,582 - 29 percent
Bruce Cuff 39,368 - 12 percent
Portland Voters Come Out for Bernie Sanders
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary
Clinton, center, accompanied by Kentucky
Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes,
right, speaks at a get out the vote event at James
E. Bruce Convention Center in Hopkinsville, Ky.,
Monday, May 16, 2016.