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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A Saturday, November 3, 2018 Lawmaker worries some mailed votes may arrive late clerks’ offices after the 8 p.m. Tuesday deadline. Boquist said that after vote-by-mail was adopted in 1998, completed ballots mailed in his hometown of Dallas were sorted at the local post office and were usually delivered to the county clerk’s office to be counted the next day. Now, it can take several days, since the mail is sent to postal facilities in Port- land to be sorted, causing some ballots to arrive in county clerks’ offices after the deadline. “This disenfranchises the By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM — Voters in Oregon mail in their bal- lots or leave them in offi- cial boxes, but a Republican state lawmaker said Fri- day more mailed votes may arrive past deadline because of U.S. Postal Service cut- backs that have slowed mail delivery in rural — and pri- marily Republican — areas. Sen. Brian Boquist wrote to Elections Director Steve Trout on Friday, saying he’d like to know how many late ballots arrive at county voters,” Boquist said, add- ing that ballots mailed from Portland — a heavily Dem- ocratic area — have less risk of arriving late in the mail. Boquist suggested Ore- gon might have to move to a system where ballots post- marked before the deadline are valid, like tax returns. Deb Royal, spokes- woman for top election offi- cial Secretary of State Den- nis Richardson, said voters have been strongly urged to mail ballots early or use drop boxes. It would be up to the Legislature to change the rules, she said. Elections officials in the two counties in Oregon that still have postal service hubs — Multnomah and Clacka- mas, both in the Portland area — are already taking measures to reduce the risk of ballots arriving late. Those county elections officials visit those postal sorting facilities and pick up all ballots that are avail- able at the 8 p.m. Tuesday deadline, mark those ballots as received on time and dis- tribute them to the appropri- ate counties for processing later in the week. AP Photo/Don Ryan, File In this May 17, 2016, file photo, ballots are prepared for counting at Multnomah County election headquarters in Portland. Nonaffiliated voters key to victory in governor’s race electorate. They are the sec- ond largest voting bloc after Democrats, who make up 36 percent. When combined with independents, nonaf- filiated voters outnumber Democrats. As of Friday, 83 percent of nonaffiliated and 68 percent of independents still hadn’t returned their ballots, accord- ing to the Oregon Elections Division. Meanwhile, 60 percent of Democrats and 60 percent of Republicans have yet to turn in ballots. “There are far more inde- pendents and nonaffiliated voters (as a percentage) that By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau With polls showing the two main gubernatorial can- didates only a few percent- age points away from victory, their campaigns are focused on winning votes from non- affiliated and independent voters in the final days before Tuesday’s election. The last-minute choices of those voters could deter- mine the outcome of the race, political analysts said Thursday. Nonaffiliated voters make up 32 percent of the state have yet to vote than Demo- crats and Republicans so how they break in the last week of the election is probably going to determine the outcome of the governor’s race,” said Sal Peralta, secretary of the Inde- pendent Party of Oregon. Troutdale resident Steve Smith, a registered Indepen- dent, is one of those who hasn’t voted yet. “I wait until Voting Day,” Smith said. “It’s kind of a tradition.” Democratic incumbent Gov. Kate Brown’s cam- paign has been targeting ads toward nonaffiliated voters Forecast for Pendleton Area TODAY SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Times of clouds and sun Occasional rain Partly sunny with a brief shower Some sun with a passing shower Partly sunny and chilly 59° 49° 60° 42° PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 56° 41° 53° 36° 50° 30° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 62° 51° 65° 43° 61° 41° 59° 37° OREGON FORECAST 55° 29° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yest. HIGH LOW TEMP. Olympia 56/53 51/43 59/40 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 60/50 Lewiston 63/52 58/53 Astoria 58/54 Pullman Yakima 57/46 56/50 55/47 Portland Hermiston 60/52 The Dalles 62/51 Salem Corvallis 60/48 Yesterday Normals Records La Grande 52/42 PRECIPITATION John Day Eugene Bend 61/49 58/44 53/44 Ontario 59/42 Caldwell Burns 69° 54° 57° 35° 72° (1977) 0° (1935) 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date Albany 59/49 0.01" 0.01" 0.06" 6.46" 7.83" 7.34" WINDS (in mph) 58/43 55/28 0.07" 0.07" 0.08" 8.22" 13.72" 10.07" through 3 p.m. yest. HIGH LOW TEMP. Pendleton 51/40 61/52 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date HERMISTON Enterprise 59/49 61/47 63° 47° 56° 36° 75° (1908) 7° (1935) PRECIPITATION Moses Lake 57/51 Aberdeen 50/42 56/44 Tacoma Yesterday Normals Records Spokane Wenatchee 56/51 port a ballot measure to do that in 2020. Charles Starr, a nonaffil- iated voter from Portland, said he voted for Starnes and returned his ballot the day before the candidate withdrew. “If I had known that before, I would have just voted for Kate Brown,” Starr said. He said he usually votes for liberal candidates. Among his reasons is their pro-life stance. “Kate was already my back-up option,” Starr said. Smith, the independent from Troutdale, said he is leaning toward voting for Republican challenger Knute Buehler. “I think it’s time for the state to have a change,” Smith said. “You leave one party in power long enough, and things start to go sideways.” He said he would like a Republican governor to have veto power over the Demo- cratic majority in the Oregon House and Senate. “I am anti-corruption, and I also am all about checks and balances,” he said. Ricky Story, an inde- pendent from Clackamas County, said he has never voted Republican but plans to vote for Buehler. “I think we need some changes, and maybe that will be the change,” Story said. “We don’t have a lot of options.” Buehler’s campaign also is reaching out to nonaffili- ated and independent voters “through grassroots efforts, events, canvassing, ads and informational pieces,” said spokeswoman Monica Wroblewski. “Every vote is really important in this race,” Wro- blewski said “Independent voters in particular feel like the typical partisan labels don’t define them and are looking for new leadership. We are using every tool we can to communicate Knute’s message to these voters.” She declined to provide specifics on how the cam- paign was identifying and reaching nonaffiliated voters. ALMANAC Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Seattle on social media sites, such as Facebook, said spokesman Christian Gaston. “What the social media networks are doing is they are offering that advertis- ing profile and offering both campaigns and commercial advertisers access to differ- ent consumers,” Gaston said. Additionally, the cam- paign also is reaching such voters through door knock- ing, phone calls and text mes- sages, Brown said. “The second largest group of voters in Oregon now is nonaffiliated, so what that tells me is the Oregon elec- torate, Oregonians, are hun- gry for systems reform and I think, campaign finance, is part of those reforms that need to happen,” the gover- nor said Tuesday. She made the comment minutes after Patrick Starnes, Independent Party of Ore- gon candidate for governor, withdrew from the race and endorsed Brown. Starnes campaigned principally on limiting political contribu- tions. Brown agreed to sup- Today Boardman Pendleton Medford 62/41 Sun. WSW 7-14 WSW 7-14 WSW 8-16 WSW 8-16 SUN AND MOON Klamath Falls 61/31 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018 Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today 7:38 a.m. 5:39 p.m. 2:44 a.m. 4:12 p.m. New First Full Last Nov 7 Nov 15 Nov 22 Nov 29 High court declines to extend halt to climate change lawsuit By JESSICA GRESKO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday declined for now to stop a lawsuit filed by young activists who say the government isn’t doing enough to prevent climate change. But the high court told the Trump administra- tion that the government can still petition a lower court to dismiss the case as the government had asked the high court to do. Trial in the case had been scheduled to begin earlier this week in Eugene, but the Supreme Court temporarily halted the trial earlier this month. On Friday evening, the high court declined to extend the temporary halt to the case. The court said in a three-page, unsigned order that ordinarily the request the government made to the justices for the case to be dismissed has to be made to a lower court first. The high court said “adequate relief may be available” from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. That court has previously declined requests to dismiss the case at earlier stages. The Supreme Court also didn’t rule out bringing the case back to the justices after the appeals court rules. Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Neil Gorsuch said they would have extended the halt to the case. NATIONAL EXTREMES Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 94° in Thermal, Calif. Low 5° in Angel Fire, N.M. NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY �r� ������ ���l ��� ����� �������� Girls’ �i��� ��� �����s���� ���� ��� ���� ��� �� ��� ��� �� ��� �� ��ri�� ����� ����l����� �� ����� ������ ������������ Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. 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