In Oregon we vote by mail. There are no polling places, but voters have a chance to spread their voting out and find the time to make informed decisions.
If you are not in Oregon, please mark November 7 on your calendar now. Plan when you’ll visit your polling place. Don’t let yourself not have enough time.
If you’re in Oregon and haven’t opened that ballot, I encourage you to start now. There are some confusing measures and beginning early will ensure you get to read arguments from both sides.
Just filled out my ballot last night and yeah it takes a while to read through all the different measures. I tend to skip the judges just because I really have no idea and most are running unopposed anyway. I vote by mail here as well but by choice. It’s a little tricky this election though. The ballot is bigger so it takes 63 cents to mail it in.
I noticed something strange when I was going through the material, there’s a card warning you about the necessary postage written in both English and Chinese but not Spanish. It got me to wonder if it’s an oversight or if someone is hoping to disenfrachise some minority voters.
Wacky. Would you say your neighborhood has a large Chinese-American population? It could be some strange law that says instructions must be printed in English and the highest non-English language spoken in the zip code. The Census collects that info, so it’d be somewhat easy to get the data. The translating would be that hard part!
If that’s not the case, then you may be onto something. My educated guess would follow along with yours: a Spanish translation should always be there in Seattle.