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Richardson wants to
change rules to keep
more voters active
can ensure that they already have
the right to vote, because they are
already registered to vote.”
Asked whether he had received
SALEM — Oregon Secretary of
State Dennis Richardson is pushing a legal opinion as to whether this
to reactivate thousands of registered change could be made, Richardson
voters who have not participated in said, “I’m a lawyer,” and that
several members of his staff,
recent elections.
Under state administrative rules, including the head of the elections
voters are considered inactive if division, are lawyers.
Richardson said the
they don’t vote for five
statute said that “not less
years and do not update
than five years” may pass
their registration infor-
before a voter is consid-
mation in that period.
ered inactive; he said it
Richardson announced
does not require the secre-
Tuesday that he hopes
tary of state to deactivate
to change the rule by
voters after five years.
increasing the threshold
Richardson said the
to 10 years.
project was within the
His office estimates the
“capacity” of the Secre-
move would keep activate Richardson
tary of State’s elections
about 30,000 voters who
were set to be deactivated this division budget, and associated
year, and reactivate approximately costs, such as staff time, would not
another 30,000 who were deacti- require legislative approval.
Asked whether the Secretary of
vated within the past decade.
Inactive voters aren’t sent State’s Office had plans to track the
ballots; however, they can go to number of reactivated voters who
county elections offices to pick up actually vote after being reacti-
a ballot. Richardson argues that vated, Richardson said:
“I don’t know if we do or not,
presents a “barrier” to voting.
In total, there are about 400,000 but we’ll discuss it, and if that can
inactive voters in Oregon, Rich- be done in an open and transparent
ardson said, flanked by boxes of way, that would be interesting
blank voter registration cards, information to have,” Richardson
during a press conference at the said.
Richardson is a Republican —
state capitol Tuesday.
Many of those inactive voters the first to serve in the post since
have moved out of state perma- 1985 — and touted “bipartisan”
nently; but others have left Oregon support for the project.
Rep. Brad Witt, D-Clatskanie,
because they are attending colleges
in other states or are active service and Rep. Jodi Hack, R-Salem, also
spoke in favor of the effort, as did
members overseas.
Making the change would the secretary of the Independent
involve going through the addresses Party of Oregon, Sal Peralta.
“This is about encouraging
of inactive voters and comparing
them to DMV records to verify Oregonians to stay engaged in the
political process by preserving their
people still reside in Oregon.
The Secretary of State’s Office access to the ballot,” Hack said.
Witt called the current rule
has access to those records thanks
to the state’s landmark Motor Voter “dissonant and unnecessarily
law, which automatically registers punitive” in a state that recently
people to vote when they have implemented automatic voter regis-
tration.
contact with the DMV.
“It makes little sense that as
Inactive voters are already regis-
tered, and reactivating them won’t we add hundreds of thousands of
require them to choose a political voters to our registration lists on the
party or remain non-affiliated, one hand, we would be eliminating
Richardson said. Inactive voters are tens of thousands on the other,”
not counted when the state tallies Witt said. “We need to remember
that the right to vote carries with it
up voter participation.
Richardson said he did not know the right not to vote.”
Peralta charged that inactive
the party affiliation of the voters
status primarily affected military
who had gone inactive.
“We can verify what their current and college students, calling it a
address is,” Richardson said. “We “critical access issue” for voters.
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
BRIEFLY
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A
bill introduced in Congress would
allow some Northwest Indian
tribes to kill a limited number of
sea lions that prey on endangered
salmon in the Columbia River.
The bipartisan bill was
introduced last weekend by U.S.
House members Jaime Herrera
Beutler, R-Wash., and Kurt
Schrader, D-Ore.
If passed, the bill would allow
the Warm Springs, Umatilla,
Yakama, and Nez Perce tribes to
kill some sea lions that are eating
salmon during their return from
the ocean to inland spawning
grounds. Currently only the states
of Washington, Oregon and Idaho
can kill sea lions.
Last year, approximately 190
sea lions killed over 9,500 adult
spring chinook within sight of
Bonneville Dam, according to the
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish
Commission in Portland, Oregon.
That represented a 5.8 percent
loss.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The
Washington Legislature has passed
a bill aiming to prohibit companies
and government agencies from
gathering personal biometric
data or specific biological
characteristics like a fingerprint or
someone’s face.
House Bill 1717 unanimously
passed in the Senate Tuesday and
was voted out of the House in
March. It now heads to Gov. Jay
Inslee’s desk to be signed into law.
Under the measure, agencies
would not be allowed to obtain a
person’s biometric identifier —
such as retinal scans, fingerprints,
handprints, voice imprints and
facial recognition — without
notifying them or getting their
consent. It would also restrict
agencies from using, sharing or
reviewing any persons’ biometric
characteristics.
The legislation comes after
companies have discovered ways
to identify people on social media
via facial recognition software,
access phones using a fingerprint
and unlock doors with a scan of a
person’s iris or retina.
Biometric identifiers would
also be exempted from the Public
Records Act. Currently, there is
no federal or Washington law that
specifically regulates the collection
or use of biometric data.
PORTLAND (AP) — State
officials say they will begin a
campaign to kill Japanese beetles
that are destructive toward
commercial nurseries, vineyards,
orchards and crops next week.
The Capital Press reports
the Oregon Department of
Agriculture says the action,
which will start April 17, could
become an annual treatment
for the next five years. The
department says an infestation
PORTLAND (AP) — An
Oregon judge has issued a gag
order to prevent officials from
discussing the high levels of a
cancer-causing chemical they
found in the air near a Lebanon
battery parts maker.
The Oregonian/OregonLive
reports Linn County Circuit Court
Forecast
Bill protecting
personal biometric
data heads to Gov.
State officials plan to
squash Japanese beetle
infestation
Gag order prevents
discussion of
chemical pollutant
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