Mail-In Voting’s Northwest Roots Meet a National Storm
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Mail-in ballots have been the norm in Oregon and Washington for decades, but President Trump’s attacks and related federal moves—USPS funding cuts, executive orders, and court challenges—have turned a once-bipartisan system into a partisan battleground, prompting lawsuits and warnings from election officials who fear eroding public trust in a process those states helped pioneer.
Topics:nation#election-law#mail-in-voting#pacific-northwest#politics#trump-administration#voter-trust
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- Trump's illegal attack on mail ballots has Republicans nervous | Opinion USA Today
- The Fight to Protect the Midterms Brennan Center for Justice
- Mail-in voting executive order a non-starter for Colorado’s clerks Colorado Public Radio
- In turnaround, judge who blocked Trump’s last anti-voting order won’t hear challenge to new one Democracy Docket
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