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We will be posting Lane County election updates here throughout the day. Check back for the latest.
11:13 a.m.
A look inside the ballot counting operation
What happens to your ballot after you’ve cast your vote and handed it in? Lane County Clerk Tommy Gong says ballots go through an 8-step process, including collection, sorting, signature verification, extraction and scanning, all carried out by bipartisan teams of election workers.
— Lillian Schrock-Clevenger
Read more about the life of a Lane County ballot in a story by Ben Botkin.
11:07 a.m.
Tune in live to watch election crews at work
Did you know you can watch the “action” in the Lane County Elections Office live on YouTube?
— Bob Passaro
10:40 a.m.
The Election Day backdrop came up in public comment at the Lane County Board of Commissioners meeting, when several members of the public raised concerns about the county’s handling of the CleanLane contract, which Lookout has reported on extensively.
One commenter, Ruben Garcia of Eugene, told commissioners that putting CleanLane on the ballot would have been the preferred path, as the city is doing with the Eugene Clean Energy Fund measure on the ballot today.
“Giving the public an opportunity to vote on this plan would have been ideal and quite prudent, like the clean energy initiative that will be on our ballots today,” Garcia said. “They’re giving us a choice. They’re not forcing it down our throats like you have done with CleanLane.”
— Ben Botkin
10:12 a.m.
A surge in ballot returns expected today
As of Monday evening, voter turnout in Lane County just over 49%, but that should jump as last-day voters turn in their ballots Tuesday.
Though you can technically still mail your ballot, making sure it’s postmarked by this Election Day, state elections officials recommend you take your ballot to an official drop box. Here’s a list of Lane County drop boxes.
— Mike McInally
See Mike McInally’s full story with details on turnout, ballots, when results are expected, and more.
10:10 a.m.
Local fire levies common on ballots all across the state
Senior reporter Alex Baumhardt of the Oregon Capital Chronicle reports that “voters in a quarter of Oregon’s 36 counties will vote in Tuesday’s election on whether to raise local property taxes to fund struggling fire districts and departments trying to keep up with rising costs and record acreage burned.”
Among 80 local measures on ballots across the state, 16 would fund rural fire districts and departments. In other local measures around the state, six cities will be deciding to either tax or ban the sale of marijuana or psilocybin.
— Bob Passaro
