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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast WEDNESDAY TODAY Low clouds, fog breaking Freezing fog in the morning 39° 23° 35° 22° THURSDAY FRIDAY Freezing fog in the morning Freezing fog in the morning PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 36° 21° 35° 22° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 37° 25° 40° 25° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 43° 41° 70° (1923) 30° 28° -1° (1972) PRECIPITATION 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 0.00" 0.07" 0.18" 15.33" 11.26" 11.65" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 46° 42° 67° (1982) 0.00" 0.01" 0.22" 8.77" 7.90" 8.69" SUN AND MOON Dec 17 Bend 42/17 First Dec 26 7:20 a.m. 4:11 p.m. 6:50 p.m. 9:18 a.m. Full Jan 1 Caldwell 39/19 Burns 33/6 Astoria Baker City Bend Brookings Burns Enterprise Eugene Heppner Hermiston John Day Klamath Falls La Grande Meacham Medford Newport North Bend Ontario Pasco Pendleton Portland Redmond Salem Spokane Ukiah Vancouver Walla Walla Yakima Hi 51 39 42 59 33 39 43 40 40 43 40 40 39 48 52 55 38 37 39 49 42 48 33 40 49 37 42 Lo 37 13 17 42 6 19 28 23 25 23 15 20 19 28 39 38 17 22 23 36 15 32 21 19 35 24 24 W s pc s s s pc s pc pc s s pc pc s s s s pc pc s s s pc pc s pc pc NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Wed. Hi 56 40 41 58 34 40 48 36 37 45 44 41 40 52 55 59 35 35 35 50 40 51 34 41 51 35 41 Lo 38 14 16 42 10 23 26 21 25 22 18 22 20 28 39 39 17 24 22 34 13 29 21 18 32 25 24 W s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s s WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 45 68 67 48 76 28 45 55 32 73 57 Lo 27 62 50 42 46 19 37 35 22 63 40 W s c c c s sn c s s sh s Wed. Hi 47 70 52 53 74 26 42 57 41 76 52 Lo 26 62 42 48 47 19 33 41 28 64 40 W s pc sh c pc sn s s s t s WINDS Medford 48/28 PRECIPITATION Dec 9 John Day 43/23 Ontario 38/17 24° 29° 2° (2013) 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Last New Albany 46/29 Eugene 43/28 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 35° 24° Spokane Wenatchee 33/21 35/23 Tacoma Moses 45/28 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 37/24 37/24 47/36 44/28 42/24 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 46/30 37/24 Lewiston 38/24 Astoria 40/25 51/37 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 49/36 Pendleton 39/19 The Dalles 40/25 39/23 45/28 La Grande Salem 40/20 48/32 Corvallis 46/31 HIGH 36° 23° Seattle 45/35 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 37° 24° Today SATURDAY Freezing fog in the morning 36° 21° Tuesday, December 5, 2017 Klamath Falls 40/15 (in mph) Today Wednesday Boardman Pendleton NE 4-8 NNE 4-8 NNE 4-8 NNW 4-8 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Plenty of sun today. Clear tonight. Areas of fog tomorrow morning in central parts. Eastern and Central Oregon: Freezing fog dur- ing the morning; otherwise, sun, but low clouds and freezing fog breaking across the north today. Western Washington: Mostly sunny today; areas of morning fog. Mainly clear tonight; areas of fog late. 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 Office hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed major holidays To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ East Oregonian (USPS 164-980) is published daily except Sunday, Monday and postal holidays, by the EO Media Group, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. Periodicals postage paid at Pendleton, OR. Postmaster: send address changes to East Oregonian, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. Cascades: Mostly sunny today. Mainly clear tonight; areas of freezing fog late. 0 1 1 1 0 0 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Northern California: Plenty of sunshine today; not as cold in the interior mountains. Clear tonight. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017 Subscriber services: For mail delivery, online access, vacation stops or delivery concerns call 1-800-522-0255 ext. 1 — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — www.eastoregonian.com Eastern Washington: Low clouds and freez- ing fog, then some sun today. 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NATIONAL CITIES Today Albuquerque Atlanta Atlantic City Baltimore Billings Birmingham Boise Boston Charleston, SC Charleston, WV Chicago Cleveland Dallas Denver Detroit El Paso Fairbanks Fargo Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jacksonville Kansas City Las Vegas Little Rock Los Angeles Hi 46 70 62 62 42 66 38 50 77 59 39 52 58 48 48 60 28 21 79 71 44 81 48 58 54 71 Lo 24 41 46 43 27 38 21 49 61 30 25 27 39 23 26 34 19 11 66 42 26 59 31 38 36 50 W pc c sh r c t s sh pc r pc r pc s c pc pc c c r pc pc pc s pc s Wed. Hi 48 53 51 50 42 53 38 51 66 48 36 41 60 39 39 48 24 20 81 50 42 75 45 62 59 76 Lo 27 40 39 34 28 37 22 33 43 27 21 26 37 20 25 31 16 4 65 41 21 48 21 42 31 53 Today W s c r pc c c s r r s s pc s pc c sh sn s pc r s c pc s s s Louisville Memphis Miami Milwaukee Minneapolis Nashville New Orleans New York City Oklahoma City Omaha Philadelphia Phoenix Portland, ME Providence Raleigh Rapid City Reno Sacramento St. Louis Salt Lake City San Diego San Francisco Seattle Tucson Washington, DC Wichita Hi 53 53 84 37 24 58 80 60 52 41 62 72 46 55 69 43 43 61 47 36 70 62 45 69 64 53 Lo 31 37 72 23 16 33 51 48 30 30 45 52 44 52 50 22 17 33 32 20 49 45 35 51 43 30 W r r s pc pc r t r pc pc r pc r sh c c s s pc s s s s pc r pc Wed. Hi 52 56 85 33 25 54 52 49 56 39 49 75 46 53 53 36 46 60 49 37 74 61 51 69 51 50 Lo 27 32 71 21 10 31 42 34 25 16 36 49 26 31 38 19 18 33 25 21 52 46 35 46 37 26 W s s pc pc s s r pc s sf pc pc r r pc sf s s pc s s s s pc pc s Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice. ADVERTISING Advertising Director: Marissa Williams 541-278-2669 • addirector@eastoregonian.com Advertising Services: Laura Jensen 541-966-0806 • ljensen@eastoregonian.com Multimedia Consultants: • Kimberly Macias 541-278-2683 • kmacias@eastoregonian.com • Jeanne Jewett 541-564-4531 • jjewett@eastoregonian.com • Dayle Stinson 541-278-2670 • dstinson@eastoregonian.com • Angela Treadwell 541-966-0827 • atreadwell@eastoregonian.com • Audra Workman 541-564-4538 • aworkman@eastoregonian.com • Grace Bubar 541-276-2214 • gbubar@eastoregonian.com Classified & Legal Advertising 1-800-962-2819 or 541-278-2678 classifieds@eastoregonian.com or legals@eastoregonian.com NEWS • To submit news tips and press releases: • call 541-966-0818 • fax 541-276-8314 • email news@eastoregonian.com • To submit community events, calendar items and Your EO News: email community@eastoregonian.com or call Tammy Malgesini at 541-564-4539 or Renee Struthers at 541-966-0818. • To submit engagements, weddings and anniversaries: email rstruthers@eastoregonian.com or visit www.eastoregonian. com/community/announcements • To submit a Letter to the Editor: mail to Managing Editor Daniel Wattenburger, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801 or email editor@eastoregonian.com. • To submit sports or outdoors information or tips: 541-966-0838 • sports@eastoregonian.com COMMERCIAL PRINTING Production Manager: Mike Jensen 541-215-0824 • mjensen@eastoregonian.com SCAM ALERT If you get a call from 541-276-4455 with caller ID “East Oregonian Pub” — do not answer, this is a scam. The caller is someone with a foreign accent indicating he is calling about your credit card debt. This is not an East Oregonian number, and we have absolutely nothing to do with credit card debt collection. Please help spread the word. The unrealized potential of nonaffiliated voters By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau Oregon’s nonaffiliated voters — those who belong to no political party — could soon be on track to outnumber Democrats, the state’s reigning major party. Yet this massive voting bloc is nearly impotent in choosing candidates to run in general elections, because they are excluded from participating in the state’s Democratic and Republican primaries. Oregon is one of nine states in the country with closed primaries. The exception is the Independent Party of Oregon, which opens its primaries but has never had a candidate elected to state office. Nonaffiliated voters “are a much more diverse group than most realize, particularly now that we have (automatic voter registration),” said Paul Gronke, political science professor at Reed College. “I think they can be a powerful force, but only if they assert their voice, and the problem with that is their diversity. They are not all ‘middle,’ as you might think.” In last year’s presidential primary, many nonaffiliated voters and third-party members were spurred to join a major party so they could have a say in who stood in the general election. Party jumping Southeast Portland resident Erik Baldwin said he temporarily joined the Democratic Party so that he could vote for Hillary Clinton in the primary. “I voted for the Demo- cratic nominee because I didn’t want the head doofus in charge to be elected,” said Baldwin, referring to Presi- dent Donald Trump. Other nonaffiliated and third-party affiliates switched to the Republican Party Capital Bureau Portland resident John Andersen was a nonaffiliated voter for more than 15 years before he switched to the Democratic Party to participate in its 2016 presidential primary. so that they could vote for Trump, according to voter registration rolls from several Oregon counties. The process of changing party affiliation takes only a couple of minutes on the Secretary of State’s website. “It’s a choice we all make, but I would love to have my opinion matter and not have to change my party affiliation to do so,” Baldwin said. Nonaffiliated voters who want to vote in a major party’s primary have to become a member in time to receive a ballot. The deadline for the 2018 primaries is April 24. “Many people don’t think about party registration or elections until we get close to a national election cycle,” said former Secretary of State Jeanne Atkins, who now chairs the Democratic Party of Oregon. “What we saw in 2016 was that a large number of nonaffiliated voters got interested just before the primary and re-registered in time to participate. We would expect the same to happen in 2018 and beyond.” Portland resident John Andersen was another of those voters. After staying nonaffiliated for more than 15 years, Andersen said he registered with the Demo- cratic Party in 2016 so he could vote for Bernie Sanders in the presidential primary. “I moved to the Demo- crats to try to stop Trump in 2016, because I realized that the party structure — whether I like it or not — is the mechanism to get things done,” Andersen said. The number of nonaffil- iated voters in the state has climbed annually since 2014. The state’s first-in-the-nation automatic voter registration law boosted that growth dramatically after it took effect in January 2016. About 88 percent of the nearly 300,000 voters automatically registered between then and August 2017 are nonaffiliated with a political party. The law, dubbed “Motor Voter” because residents are automatically registered when they get a driver’s license or identity card from the Department of Motor Vehicles, ended the former practice of giving new licensees the voluntary option of signing up for a political party at the DMV. Voters now receive a card in the mail notifying them that they can register for a political party by returning the card or signing up on the Secretary of State’s website. Only a fraction — 12.4 percent — of automatically registered voters chose a party affiliation. The rest are largely nonaffiliated by default. Newer voters less engaged That suggests many of the new nonaffiliated voters are disengaged politically. “The party that benefits (from automatic registration) will be the party, or candi- dates, that mobilize these new registrants,” said Gronke, who co-authored a report on the landmark law earlier this year. Nonaffiliated voters now make up more than 30 percent of registered voters, according to the most recent statistics from the Secretary of State’s Office. As a comparison, Democrats, Oregon’s largest political party — account for more than 36 percent of registered voters. Nonetheless, nonaffiliated voters are nearly voiceless in choosing nominees for general elections, especially in choosing their lawmakers for the Oregon Legislature. Nonaffiliated and third-party voters have no say in who wins the Democratic and GOP nominations. We Have the Perfect Gifts! Jewelry • Purses • Clothing • Candles & Much More! U.S. officials investigating Oregon marijuana operation SALEM (AP) — The U.S. Attorney’s office in Portland says federal officials are investigating a marijuana processing facility in Oregon near Interstate 5, a major drug-trafficking route, after an explosion there injured a man who was previously convicted in a money laundering operation linked to a pot-trafficking operation. The probe is a rare instance in which U.S. officials are investigating a marijuana case in a state in which the drug has been legalized, contrary to federal laws that ban possession and distribution of pot. The Register-Guard, a newspaper in Eugene near where the Nov. 16 explosion occurred, said Eric Scully was hospitalized with burns to his face and hands after the blast in Cottage Grove. Kevin Sonoff, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office, told The Associated Press he cannot comment on active investigations. Southwestern Idaho has housing shortage for H-2A workers CALDWELL, Idaho (AP) — Some housing authorities in southwestern Idaho are struggling to keep up with a rising demand for affordable housing that is the result of a large increase in farm businesses seeking temporary foreign guest workers under the H-2A visa program. Agricultural producers who use the program are required to provide housing for the workers. The Capital Press reports the Caldwell Housing Authority, which operates the Farmway Village public housing complex for domestic farm workers and low-income individuals, received its first request to house H-2A workers three years ago. That year they housed 8 workers. But the numbers continue to grow and next year they expect to house 214 people here on guest worker visas. Caldwell Housing Authority Executive Director Mike Dittenber says the organization is scrambling to get units together for the upcoming year. Your Place r By Orde 1th! Dec. 1 Order Your Favorite Holiday Smoked Turkey! Great for gift s, parties & gift baskets. Gift certifi cates available QUANTITIES LIMITED, ORDER YOURS NOW! E.O.M.S. Corrections The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. 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