Instead, ballot envelopes now have a printed security weave inside for voter privacy. This year’s Jackson County ballots no longer include a secrecy envelope. The other is a revised mail-in ballot deadline change that should have last-minute mailbox voters double-checking the fine print.Įffective this year, Oregon elections officials must accept mailed ballots up to seven days after election day - but only if the ballot has an election-day postmark. The new ballot envelope is one of two easy-to-miss changes for voters. "It’s one less item that we have to maintain,“ Walker said. Walker said the envelope design - first tested in Multnomah County during the 2020 election - still protects ballots from any prying eyes while simplifying the election process. Instead, the one ballot envelope now includes the security weave that used to be used in the old privacy envelope. The perforated ballot secrecy envelope used in every election from 2000 to 2020 is gone.
There’s one fewer envelope this year, according to Walker.
Postal Service processing facility Friday and were to arrive in Jackson County voters’ mailboxes as soon as this weekend, according to Jackson County Clerk Chris Walker, who has 27 years of experience in recording and election programs, and has been the county’s elected clerk since 2008. With ballots arriving in Jackson County mailboxes, voters should be ready for slight changes to this year’s ballot envelopes, the contents inside them and the deadlines for turning them around.īallots for the Tuesday, May 17, primary election left the U.S. Jackson County Clerk details changes, including new envelopes and election security, as ballots arrive
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