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Voting and Campaign Reforms Signed Into Law in Oregon

August 2, 2019

It just got easier to vote in Oregon, with new laws being signed Friday making it free to mail in ballots, requiring campaign ads to say who paid for them and making political organizations identify their largest donors.

Oregon already has mail-in ballots that make waiting for hours to vote at polling stations a thing of the past. Senate Bill 861 requires the state to pay for the stamps on those ballots. And the state's U.S. senators want to make that a national trend.

U.S. Representative Suzanne Bonamici co-sponsored the For the People Act, which aims to make Oregon standards like automatic voter registration, online registration and vote-by-mail the law of the land. The resolution passed in the House but has not yet been introduced in the Senate, as Bonamici noted in a statement.