Oregon Ambush in WSJ
The Wall Street Journal lies.
Oregon has an estimated population of 3,825,657, of which 2,062,607 are registered to vote.
(If that number seems suspiciously high, it is. In Oregon you register by mail and your ballot is mailed to you. You fill it out in the privacy of your own home, sign the return envelope, and mail it back. The signature is checked against the signature you used when registering. Other than that, there are no checks.)
Anyway 1,263,997 ballots arrived in this election for a "turnout" of just over 61%. Of those, 682,238 voted for measure 66 and 672,370 for measure 67. That means fewer than 18% of Oregonians — probably way fewer — voted for higher taxes. We're not quite as stupid as we look.
(On the other hand, barely 15% voted against, so maybe we are.)
It's not often that citizens vote for higher taxes, but 54% of Oregonians have done precisely that.Man that really chafes my butt.
Oregon has an estimated population of 3,825,657, of which 2,062,607 are registered to vote.
(If that number seems suspiciously high, it is. In Oregon you register by mail and your ballot is mailed to you. You fill it out in the privacy of your own home, sign the return envelope, and mail it back. The signature is checked against the signature you used when registering. Other than that, there are no checks.)
Anyway 1,263,997 ballots arrived in this election for a "turnout" of just over 61%. Of those, 682,238 voted for measure 66 and 672,370 for measure 67. That means fewer than 18% of Oregonians — probably way fewer — voted for higher taxes. We're not quite as stupid as we look.
(On the other hand, barely 15% voted against, so maybe we are.)
posted by Gordon R. Durand at 9:47 PM
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