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STATE AUDIT | CLACKAMAS COUNTY
Primary tally was accurate
BY PETER WONG
Oregon Capital Bureau
A state-ordered audit has
concluded that Clackamas
County’s tally of results from
the May 17 primary election
was accurate, despite faulty
printed barcodes that required
hand duplication of thousands
of ballots.
The special audit, which
Secretary of State Shemia Fa-
gan ordered on June 10, was
in addition to the regular
post-election audits required
in all of Oregon’s 36 counties,
which conduct the elections.
Audits usually involve
county election workers pull-
ing a statistically significant
random sampling of ballots in
statewide races off the shelves
— ballots are normally tallied
by optical scanners or other
“This post-election audit was a necessary step in assuring
Clackamas County voters, and all Oregonians, that they
can continue to trust in the integrity of Oregon elections.”
— Shemia Fagan, secretary of state
machines — and counting
them by hand. Then the sam-
ples are matched against the
machine-tallied results to ver-
ify their accuracy.
The state order for Clack-
amas County was more ex-
tensive. It required workers
to verify that the ballots they
duplicated by hand were tran-
scribed accurately, in addition
to the standard requirements.
The order specifies which
batches of ballots should be
recounted from six county-
wide races. The batches were
randomly selected, as were the
races.
Clackamas County com-
pleted its special audit by the
state deadline of June 23.
Fagan, who lives in Clack-
amas County, said in a state-
ment on Aug. 5:
“I mandated Clackamas
County elections to conduct a
hand recount and investigate
the ballot duplication process
to ensure that ballots with mis-
printed barcodes were counted
correctly. Clackamas County
can rest assured that this rigor-
ous post-election audit verified
that the May 2022 election re-
sults were 100% accurate.
“This post-election audit
was a necessary step in assur-
ing Clackamas County voters,
and all Oregonians, that they
can continue to trust in the in-
tegrity of Oregon elections.”
The secretary of state is Or-
egon’s chief elections officer.
County election workers did
find one ballot that was dupli-
cated incorrectly. There also
were some minor discrepan-
cies in the numbers tallied for
candidates, though the overall
totals of ballots cast were cor-
rect, and the discrepancies had
no effect on any of the election
races chosen for audit.
The contests were Clack-
amas County commissioner
positions 2 and 5 — incum-
bents Paul Savas and Sonya
Fischer are headed for Nov.
8 runoffs, since neither won
a majority in the primary for
the nonpartisan offices — plus
party nominees for U.S. sen-
ator, and unopposed candi-
dates for three nonpartisan
judgeships on the Clackamas
County Circuit Court, Oregon
Court of Appeals and Oregon
Supreme Court. Ten races for
precinct committee persons
also were covered.
According to the order, the
batches represent 10% of the
total ballots cast. Depending
on the race, between 90,000
and 98,000 ballots were cast in
Clackamas County in the pri-
mary. The audits cover sam-
plings of the total.
Clackamas County Clerk
Sherry Hall certified primary
results on June 14.
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CENTRAL OREGON WILDFIRES
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Bulletin staff report
As temperatures are pro-
jected to rise again at the be-
ginning of the week, potential
for fire growth remains high
and the public should exercise
cautions, the Central Oregon
Interagency Dispatch Center
said Saturday.
The Deadline Flat Fire is
burning 15 miles northwest
of Paulina on Bureau of Land
Management land. Since
1:30 a.m. Friday, three engines
have been working to contain
the fire burning mostly grass
and juniper trees. As of Satur-
day afternoon, it was 2 acres in
size and 0% contained.
The Green Butte Fire, lo-
cated around 13 miles south-
east of La Pine on the De-
schutes National Forest, was
23 acres in size and 50% con-
tained as of Saturday. The fire
caused air quality to reach
unhealthy levels in Bend on
Wednesday. Firefighters used
Dean Guernsey/Bulletin file
A helicopter drops water Monday on the Fly Creek Fire near Lake Billy
Chinook.
a drone Saturday to identify
hotspots within the fire area
to focus crews suppression ef-
forts.
The Fly Creek Fire near Lake
Billy Chinook was 95% con-
tained at 274 acres Friday.
Evacuations for Three Rivers,
Perry South and Monty camp-
grounds were lifted Thursday
and the campgrounds re-
opened for use Friday.
Minimal growth was re-
ported on the Windigo and
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Notice of Oregon Working Families
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Potter Fires on Friday, par-
tially due to aggressive air at-
tacks throughout the Windigo
Fire’s perimeter and strength-
ening existing containment
lines on the Potter Fire.
As of Saturday, the Win-
digo Fire, located 20 miles
southwest of La Pine, was
1,046 acres in size and 5%
contained. The Potter Fire, lo-
cated eight miles northeast of
Toketee Lake, was 167 acres
and 0% contained.
Both fires were caused
by lightning and resulted in
several temporary closures
throughout the area. Overlap-
ping portions of the Umpqua,
Deschutes, Willamette and
Fremont-Winema national
forests were closed Saturday.
Portions of the Pacific Crest
Trail and some forest service
roads remain closed. Air travel
was also temporarily restricted
above the fires.
Central Oregon may con-
tinue to experience smoke
from fires in the Pacific
Northwest, according to the
interagency dispatch center.
Smoke is often trapped in
river corridors and lower el-
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organization said. It advised
the public to close all windows
and doors throughout the eve-
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to limit smoke exposure.