Amid major delays, Clackamas County leaders slam county clerk for not accepting help with blurred
ballots sooner. (The County Clerk of Clackamas Co. is Sherry Hall. It is an elected position.)
Smudged barcodes on voter ballots have thrown the Clackamas County primary elections – and results of a number of big races in the county and beyond – into turmoil that will likely take weeks to solve.
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On Wednesday, other county leaders offered Hall help processing misprinted ballots, and seemed confused about why the problem had grown so large when they’d made similar offers of more resources well before the election deadline Tuesday.
Commissioner Sonya Fischer said she’d asked Hall late last week to confirm misprinted ballots would be processed over the weekend but got no response. Hall told commissioners her team did not work over the weekend because not enough of them were willing to put in the extra time. Fischer suggested Hall had been reluctant to take help from other county leaders before election day.
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Hall, who is up for reelection in November, is a controversial figure in her own right. Following the legalization of same-sex marriage in Oregon in 2014, she refused to conduct marriage ceremonies of any kind. That same year, she had to pay the state a $100 fine for asking one of her employees to help with her reelection campaign. In past reelection years, opponents have criticized her for putting her name on the envelopes of vote-by-mail ballots sent to county voters, an unusual but not illegal practice.
https://www.opb.org/article/2022/05/18/clackamas-county-votes-delay-ballot-counting-primary-election-2022/
OREGON'S CERTIFICATION DAY IS JUNE 13. What will happen if Clackamas County misses this date???
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