Well, I voted. Oregon does all voting by mail. It’s actually really great, since you can vote at your convenience right at home. I think the ‘e-voting’ initiatives that other states are undertaking sound great and I’ll probably vote over the internet someday. But for now, this old fashioned way of voting seems awfully easy and secure. I make my votes, I put my ballot in a ‘secrecy envelope’ then I put that envelope in yet another envelope and walk it over to the ballot box down the street. Easy as pie.<\/p>\n
I breezed through most of the ballot, but Measure 34<\/a> really had me stumped. Still does. I like the idea of setting aside 50% of the forests for non-logging uses, but I have a very hard time reconciling the killer combo of reduced income to the state and increased expenses to the state. The Pacific Greens<\/a> urged a yes vote, but with a “strong caveat’ (which I never found). I went further and voted against it, but with a heavy heart–I actually hope it passes, but I couldn’t, in good conscience, vote for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, I voted. Oregon does all voting by mail. It’s actually really great, since you can vote at your convenience right at home. I think the ‘e-voting’ initiatives that other states are undertaking sound great and I’ll probably vote over the internet someday. But for now, this old fashioned way of voting seems awfully easy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ckgU-45","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}