If You Haven't Voted Yet, Read This

Yes, we're all busy with a gazillion distractions heading into Halloween weekend. But us let take the opportunity on this dreary Thursday morning to remind you to vote.

There's less than a week to go until ballots are due on Tuesday, Nov. 2 into county elections offices. And turnout numbers for Oregon so far show about three out of every four registered voters haven't returned their ballots yetin Multnomah County or statewide [PDF].

And yes, we know most ballots in Oregon's mail-in system flood in to elections offices in the final days. But on the off-chance you're thinking it's too hard to vote, we'll make it easy for you. Here's the list of ballot drop boxes around Oregon if you don't want to spend the postage. And here are our endorsements of candidates and recommended votes for state and local ballot measures.

Easy, huh?

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