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DESCHUTES COUNTY
129 new cases
COVID-19 data for Friday, June 25:
Deschutes County cases: 10,067 (12 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 82 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 1,298 (3 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 23 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 2,378 (zero new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 39 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 207,787 (232 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,761 (1 new death)
COVID-19 patients hospitalized at
St. Charles Bend on Friday: 15 (5 in ICU)
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110
100
June 10*
(April 10)
90
80
50
new
cases
(Nov. 14)
31 new cases
70
*Jan. 31: No
data reported.
*June 10:
Number
includes several
days of data
due to a
reporting delay.
60
50
40
(Oct. 31)
30
16 new cases
(July 16)
(Sept. 19)
9 new cases
ONLINE
7-day
average
(Nov. 27)
120
(May 8)
(Feb. 17)
8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mon.-Fri.
115 new
cases
(Jan. 1)
47 new cases
28 new cases
130
(April 29)
108 new cases
90
new
cases
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GRAPHIC
125 new cases
(Dec. 4)
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SOURCES: OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY,
DESCHUTES COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES
New COVID-19 cases per day
20
(May 20)
1st case
10
(March 11)
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Election-Day postmarked ballots will count
BY PETER WONG
Oregon Capital Bureau
Oregon, the first state to
conduct all elections by mail,
would join the ranks of states
accepting ballots postmarked
by Election Day under a bill
that is headed to Gov. Kate
Brown.
House Bill 3291 was ap-
proved by the Oregon Senate
without amendment on a 16-
13 vote Thursday. The key vote
was cast by Sen. Lee Beyer,
D-Springfield, who hung back
until it was clear his would be
the deciding vote.
Beyer said afterward his
concern was that in close elec-
tions, voters might question
the validity of mail ballots
counted days after the election
date itself. The bill requires bal-
lots to be received by county
elections officials no later than
seven days after an election.
Brown, in her state of the
state remarks earlier this year,
endorsed Election-Day post-
marks. She is a former secre-
tary of state.
Seventeen other states —
including California, Wash-
ington and Nevada — allow
ballots to count if postmarked
by Election Day. Four others
count ballots if postmarked
no later than the day before
an election. States that allow
Election-Day postmarks vary
widely, from three to 20 days
after an election.
The bill would take effect
starting with the 2022 elec-
“This is a common-sense
measure that helps decrease
voter confusion, continues
to safeguard our elections
and continues our proud
tradition in Oregon of vote
by mail.”
— Rob Wagner, Senate majority
leader
tions. Oregon has conducted
all elections by mail starting in
2000.
The vote fell largely along
party lines. Democrats sup-
plied the bare majority of 16 to
pass it. Democratic Sen. Betsy
Johnson of Scappoose joined
the 11 Senate Republicans and
the Senate’s lone independent
to oppose it. One Democrat
was excused.
Senate Majority Leader Rob
Wagner said the change makes
sense.
“I think it is a sad commen-
tary on our civic life when ef-
forts like this that make it po-
tentially easier for people to
participate in our democracy
somehow become a partisan
issue,” Wagner, a Democrat
from Lake Oswego, said.
“This is a common-sense
measure that helps decrease
voter confusion, continues to
safeguard our elections and
continues our proud tradition
in Oregon of vote by mail.”
Republicans said they did
not object to Election-Day
postmarks, but sought other
changes, such as a ban on third-
party collection of ballots and
disqualification of ballots where
postmarks are unclear. The bill
says a ballot would count even if
the postmark is unclear.
“This is about cleaning
up the bill,” Senate Minority
Leader Fred Girod of Lyons
said. “If the bill is not cleaned
up, it’s going to be an invitation
to fraud.”
The measure also allows
elections officials to start ballot
tallies, not just preparation of
ballots for tallies election night.
Current law bars any release
of such information until after
8 p.m. election night.
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Warm Springs treaty turns 166
BY EMILY CURETON
Oregon Public Broadcasting
PORTLAND — June 25
marks a milestone.
On June 25, 1855, a treaty
paved the way for what would
become the state of Oregon,
and land ownership as it exists
today.
“This was the real story of
the West,” Louie Pitt Jr., direc-
tor of government affairs and
planning for the Confederated
Tribes of Warm Springs, told
Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Throughout history, the
United States has signed hun-
dreds of treaties with tribal na-
tions across North America.
The Treaty of 1855 created
the Warm Springs Reserva-
tion on a small fraction of the
tribes’ original 10 million-acre
territory. Oregon became a
state in 1859, in part, by using
that land.
“You watch on TV, the wild
West, where you’ve got the black
hat guys and the white hat guys
having a showdown at high
noon. ... No. The story of the
West is very boring. It’s land.
A group of
wild horses,
with Mount
Hood in the
background,
roam on the
Confeder-
ated Tribes of
Warm Springs
reservation in
2009.
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And the cutting up of land. The
owners of 10 million acres here
were the Warm Springs and
Wasco tribes,” Pitt said.
In 1855, tribal leaders
moved to the reservation,
while retaining rights to fish,
hunt and gather plants at their
“usual and accustomed sta-
tions.” Pitt said that 166 years
later, the provision remains an
important legal tool to protect
a way of life, and natural re-
sources.
“Some species of salmon are
at the lowest point they’ve ever
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bering the tribes’ history in
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sential.
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10 million acres, 13 different
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been. Development all around
us has taken up the root areas,
the berry areas. … Recreation
is always something that really
adversely affects our right to
get to places,” he said.
On the anniversary of the
1855 treaty, Pitt said, remem-
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Wildfire near Warm Springs contained
A wildfire burning on the Warm Springs In-
dian Reservation near the old sawmill grew in
size Thursday evening before being contained
by fire crews.
Danny Martinez, the tribe’s emergency man-
ager, said the fire “jumped” the Deschutes River
and was burning on the hillside behind Rain-
bow Market, west of U.S. Highway 26. Martinez
estimated the fire topped out around 90 acres.
Fire crews from Warm Springs, Jefferson
County, and the Bureau of Land Management
were on hand to help extinguish the blaze, said
Martinez, and mop-up operations were being
conducted Friday morning.
The fire started behind the sawmill in de-
bris and sawdust, which flared up in the warm
weather. Martinez said the retired industrial
area has experienced spontaneous combustion
during hot spells. The fire forced a temporary
closure of Highway 26 in both directions while
crews worked to extinguish the blaze.
— Bulletin staff report
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