So who counts the votes in Oregon?

[Skwmom]

What checks and balance and safeguards do they have in place to make sure an accurate vote count occurs?

[oldandhappy]

1. hmmm ducks or beavers??!!

[WhiteTara]

2. Probably Hillary herself

and she throws out all Sanders votes

[seabeyond]

6. I am so tired of this whiney shit, because they have lost. Such poor sportsmanship. I would be

embarrassed to be on that team.

[trueblue2007]

18. YOU ARE Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo GOP

stop lying. Hillary Clinton DOES NOT HAVE ANYTHING to do with the OR election anymore than Bernie had to do with Vermont.
. NO

i am posting the truth.

[WhiteTara]

22. that post is soooooooooooooooo weird.

and your sense of humor is sooooooooooooo absent.

[trueblue2007]

24. My sense of humor is Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn !!!

[WhiteTara]

25. If you say soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[trueblue2007]

34. Yes, I do.

[msongs]

3. hillary and bill will personally count all the votes in a locked room in the dead of night nt

[Waiting For Everyman]

4. Good question.

I hope somebody knows and can tell us.

[seabeyond]

5. I am sure tired of a miscontent walking into our party, and pumping people to accuse Dems of theft.

We have NEVER had to deal with some asshole politician accuse other Dems of theft, just because his ass lost.

But, in walks Sanders, that had done nothing but cause chaos in our party, while using the resources of the party, all the while fabricating false accusations of theft, so the rest of us Dems get to hear the whiners yelling about losing ONLY because it is being stolen. Though any suppression has been in the areas where Clinton wins hands down.

We get the suppression is out there. We get that it has taken votes away from Clinton. We too want something done about the RW theft. And here we are not whining every time Clinton has a loss that Sanders stole.

[Fawke Em]

30. Must suck that this so-called "misonctent" has garnerd far more enthusiasm

than you tired washed up candidate who offers absolutely nothing new and is only winning by collusion of the DNC and the media.

[seabeyond]

32. Sigh... ya shit like this. Almost a 1000 more delegates and over 3 million more vote. I disagree.

[litlbilly]

7. Im in oregon and sent in our votes weeks ago. I have no idea who counts or how its done. Fingers

crossed

[Brother Buzz]

9. Did you send your ballot to your county, or the state?

I can't address Oregon, but all the tallying is done at the county level in my state. Our county Registrar of Voters, an elected official, oversees the counting.

[litlbilly]

14. Im not sure, I think they all go to the same address.

[litlbilly]

17. Im Washington county so I guess thats where it went. This is my first primary ever so I didnt even

look to see where it goes. Been voting since 1972 and its my first primary Same thing with my wife.

[WhiteTara]

23. Do you vote in local elections?

[Lizzie Poppet]

8. Votes are all counted on election day at county Elections Offices.

That is to say, by government officials, even for primary election...no party involvement. No ballots are counted in advance...all counting is done on election day. I don't know what oversight exists at those offices.

[LoverOfLiberty]

12. at my County elections office

(Multnoamh) there are party observers and citizens who provide oversight to the ballot counting. The process is pretty transparent.

[Skwmom]

21. Who controls access to the ballots until that point in time?

There are so many ways to manipulate a vote.

[LoverOfLiberty]

10. All 36 counties in Oregon have an elections official

who is responsible for reporting to the Secretary of State.

I wouldn't worry too much about Oregon's election system, but if you are more interested, you can read the elections laws here.

[LexVegas]

11. Clinton does. She deletes all Bernie votes.

[trueblue2007]

19. Your whining is sooooooooooooooo un-attractive.

[Tarc]

13. Getting an early start on the excuse-building?

If Bernie doesn't hit...what's his target percentage now, 66%?

[YouDig]

15. The conspiracy does. You are dooooooomed.

[trueblue2007]

16. DUH .................... The Secretary of State

Any OREGONIAN would know the answer that the Secretary of State oversees the election just like in EVERY OTHER STATE.

[NuclearDem]

20. I do.

And I eat all the Sanders ballots.

[riversedge]

27. :-)

Love your sense of humor

[riversedge]

26. Why not do some research and find out instead of posting provacative posts meant

only to rile up people???

[Skwmom]

28. I found a manual online but it still left A LOT of unanswered questions.

[Txbluedog]

29. Actually no one does Jeb! Will finally win a primary 😄

[CreekDog]

31. Hillary and Chelsea

Then they hand them to Bill who has a guy.

[auntpurl]

33. Already laying the groundwork for accusations of voter disenfranchisement tomorrow, eh?

Be prepared!

[MadBadger]

35. If Bernie wins, honest Americans are counting the votes

if Hillary wins, Bill and Hillary counted themselves.

And David Brock

[penumbra]

36. I've worked the GE a couple of times in the past

The primary shouldn't be different.

There is a chain of custody from the precincts to the county Elections office to the State Elections Office in Portland, where the ballots are counted. The ballots are usually brought to the main office in police transport with two officers, often a Sheriff and a Deputy. The ballots are boxed and sealed when they come into the Elections office (this happens at the precincts). The boxed ballots are tracked from there for processing. The seals are broken and seen by all in the boards as a hand count is done. That sheet accompanies the ballots to the tabulation area, which is set aside but walled, windowed and observable. After electronic tabulation, the ballots are reboxed, tracked and sent to secure storage. I am not sure how long they store the ballots after the vote.

All stages of the area, while separate are observable and, indeed, there are usually three people or many more attending the movement and handling of the ballots. If you make arrangements in advance, most voters could participate in the count process or be observers. I really wish they would, too -- It gives you a great appreciation for the poll workers. It would decrease the amount of needless speculation that occurs so we could focus on any true election irregularities. They do happen. But the signal-to-noise ratio can be high when folks don't know the process for their specific state and try to make generalities.

I am not saying that a vote here can't be hacked. That said, when I worked it was a very tough election (George W's second campaign) and there were no instances of any unethical behavior on the part of any poll worker or supervisor in this office. I was in a position to watch for that, too. Now, the crew has changed, but if they use the same judgement they did in choosing their election workers as they did then, they are hard-working supporters of little "d" democracy and a credit to our process.

[Starry Messenger]

37. They take them and use them to stuff the couch cushions at Goldman.

I mean, duh.

[0rganism]

38. i believe the central tabulators are ESS, if that's your question

overall i'm pretty satisfied with OR voting -- we have more than a week to fill out our optical-scan paper ballots, we can mail them in or drop them off at various public sites, every ballot envelope has to have a signature on it that matches registration to be counted.

last election (2015 municipal bond measures, i think), my wife's signature didn't match what was on her registration (she's got kind of a random sig); we were contacted directly by someone from the SoS office to confirm that the ballot was hers, although it was too late to be counted iirc.

i wouldn't worry overmuch about Oregon's voting integrity; we have excellent turnout (some of the highest nationwide) and our system isn't any less secure than other states'.

[CK_John]

39. Maybe the mailman.