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Ballots: Coming Soon To A Mailbox Near You

Oregon voters must return their primary ballots by May 17.
Kevin Mooney
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Northwest News Network
Oregon voters must return their primary ballots by May 17.

Voters in Oregon and Washington can expect to see ballots arriving in their mailboxes starting later this week. And this year, more of those ballots than ever will go out in the mail.

More than 2.5 million people are registered to vote in this year's general election in Oregon. That's an all-time record. Interest is always higher in presidential election years. But registration numbers are getting a boost from the state's new automatic voter registration law, which signs up people to vote when they get or renew a drivers license.

Voters have until November 8 to return their ballots. And they might need that much time to figure out how they want to vote. In addition to the presidential election, there are five statewide offices up for grabs on the Oregon ballot, and seven statewide ballot measures.

Washington state has also set an all-time record for voter registrations. The Washington Secretary of State's office said more than 4.2 million people are now registered.

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Chris Lehman graduated from Temple University with a journalism degree in 1997. He landed his first job less than a month later, producing arts stories for Red River Public Radio in Shreveport, Louisiana. Three years later he headed north to DeKalb, Illinois, where he worked as a reporter and announcer for NPR–affiliate WNIJ–FM. In 2006 he headed west to become the Salem Correspondent for the Northwest News Network.