Election

Vancouver voters supported the 10-year, $100 million proposal roughly 52% to 48%. Election officials have counted less than half of the expected total.

The city, as much of the Northwest, has grown so much in recent years that its housing stock has not kept pace. The levy’s backers say people in the community are viewing the proposal as a necessity.

Voters across Oregon mostly voted against allowing the therapeutic use of the psychedelic drug psilocybin on Tuesday.

From day one, the council race was dominated by voter concerns over homelessness and crime — two issues that polls show are top of mind for Portland voters.

Oregon's counties submit their plans to the state for releasing election results. Clackamas County will have a nearly 22-hour gap between the initial count and the first update.

This election, more than two thirds of Oregon’s counties will vote on whether to opt out of the state’s new psilocybin program. But the program will start next year in 137 cities and 10 urban counties, regardless. Opting out is largely a rural discussion and in some places, there’s not much discussion at all.

Ballot Measure 113 is a union-pushed response to recent Republican walkouts. It would create a major political consequence for lawmakers for refuse to come to work to block votes.

Measure 111 asks Oregon voters whether people in the state should have an individual right to access healthcare. In this explainer comic, reporter Amelia Templeton and artist Jonathan Case explain what you need to know before you vote.

Ranked choice voting is sometimes called “instant runoff voting,” and is only used when there are at least three candidates on the ballot. That’s true for the mayor’s race and one city council race in Corvallis this year.

About three months after election snafu rendered more than half of all Clackamas County primary ballots unreadable, diverted hundreds of county employees from their normal jobs, and cost taxpayers $600,000, Clerk Sherry Hall addressed the county Board of Commissioners on Wednesday with her summary of what went wrong.