Three weeks after Oregon’s third-largest county learned that a majority of their ballots had blurry barcodes and were unreadable by vote-counting machines, state officials have yet to receive a written plan detailing how the county will complete the tally by June 13, the deadline to certify election results.
As frustrations continue to grow and the results of a key U.S. House race hangs in the balance, Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan met with Clackamas County’s top election officials Monday. She received a verbal update on the county’s progress, but continues to wait on a full written plan that outlines benchmarks and a timeline showing how long it will take to duplicate the county’s ballots by hand.
