More Than 1.1 Million Oregon Ballots Cast Ahead of Election Day

More than 1.1 million Oregon voters had already cast their ballots heading into Election Day. As of Nov. 4, the Oregon Secretary of State’s office shows that more than 46 percent of the state’s more than 3 million registered voters had returned their ballots. Those numbers include 56.1 percent of the state’s 1 million registered Democrats, 60.6 percent of the almost 743,000 registered Republicans, and 28.4 percent received from 1.1 million nonaffiliated voters. Election officials anticipated high voter turnout. More than 2.3 million ballots were cast in the 2020 general election, yielding a final turnout of 78.5 percent in the vote-by-mail state. In addition to indicating their choice for president, Oregonians are voting on three congressional races that could decide control of the U.S. House as well as three statewide executive offices, including secretary of state, treasurer, and attorney general....