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Leading Oregon Democrats on Tuesday once again proclaimed their faith that the Nov. 3 election will go off without a hitch, despite an ongoing legal battle over proposed changes to vote-by-mail policies. But the state’s top elections official would offer little clarity on what he would do if President Donald Trump’s attempt to exert more control over who receives mail ballots is deemed legal in the coming days. “We remain confident that the law and the Constitution are on our side,” Secretary of State Tobias Read said in a Salem press conference, alongside Gov. Tina Kotek and U.S. Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley. “States run elections, not presidents.
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The findings mirror a trend in Washington state, where election officials said last week that more than 20,000 ballots were marked as late in that state’s August primary election.
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