{"id":2404038,"date":"2025-02-19T05:32:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T10:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-oregon-motor-voter-and-mass-mail-ballots-invited-cheating\/"},"modified":"2025-02-19T05:34:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T10:34:29","slug":"in-oregon-motor-voter-and-mass-mail-ballots-invited-cheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-oregon-motor-voter-and-mass-mail-ballots-invited-cheating\/","title":{"rendered":"In Oregon, Motor Voter And Mass Mail Ballots Invited Cheating"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fin-oregon-motor-voter-and-mass-mail-ballots-invited-cheating%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2404038&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Oregon officials have referred\u200d three cases \u2064of\u200d alleged\u2064 noncitizen \u200cvoters to the state \u2062Department of Justice \u200cafter discovering \u2063that over 1,600 potential \u2064noncitizens were registered through the state&#8217;s\u2064 &#8220;motor \u200cvoter&#8221; system. Democrat state House Majority Leader\u2063 Ben Bowman acknowledged that the system and mail-in ballots mistakenly registered\u200c noncitizens,which inadvertently led them to vote.Following an inquiry, election \u2064officials revealed that \u200dout of 1,600 ineligible registrants, ten individuals actually cast ballots. the Oregon Secretary of State has been investigating and is working to inform potentially\u200b affected individuals about their registration status, offering &#8220;no-fault&#8221; letters to protect them \u200cin their citizenship processes. \u2062Despite endorsements \u2062for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-republican-state-senators-propose-bills-to-end-no-excuse-mail-voting-automatic-registration\/\" title=\"Georgia Republican State Senators Propose Bills to End No-excuse Mail Voting, Automatic Registration\">automatic voter registration<\/a> from some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teachers-unions-aclu-want-biden-to-extend-student-loan-repayment-pause-cancel-student-debt\/\" title=\"Teachers Unions, ACLU Want Biden To Extend Student Loan Repayment Pause, Cancel Student Debt\">left-leaning organizations<\/a>, important concerns about the \u2064security and accuracy of Oregon&#8217;s voter registration system have emerged, prompting calls for investigations into the system&#8217;s integrity.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Oregon officials are <a href=\"https:\/\/oregoncapitalchronicle.com\/2025\/02\/17\/oregon-election-officials-ask-justice-department-to-investigate-three-noncitizen-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">referring<\/a> three cases of alleged noncitizen voters to the state Department of Justice, following revelations the state&rsquo;s &ldquo;motor voter&rdquo; system registered more than 1,600 potential noncitizens. But last fall, Democrat state House Majority Leader Ben Bowman admitted the state&rsquo;s adoption of motor voter and mail-in ballots enabled noncitizens to vote.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They voted as a result of a government mistake,&rdquo; Bowman said in a September <a href=\"https:\/\/olis.oregonlegislature.gov\/liz\/mediaplayer?clientID=4879615486&amp;eventID=2024091049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hearing<\/a>. &ldquo;They didn&rsquo;t ask to be registered to vote, but they were by their government. Their government sent them ballots, we all talked about the importance of voting, and then they voted.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read forwarded three cases of alleged noncitizen voters to the state Department of Justice in early February, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2025\/02\/10\/oregon-elections-officials-noncitizen-voting-doj-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oregon Public Broadcasting<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>State officials discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/16\/oregon-secretary-of-state-defends-law-automatically-registering-hundreds-of-noncitizens-to-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hundreds of potential noncitizens<\/a> on the rolls in September, following an inquiry from the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/institute-for-responsive-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">leftist<\/a> Institute for Responsive Government, as The Federalist previously reported. After examining limited data, officials found <a href=\"https:\/\/oregoncapitalchronicle.com\/2024\/11\/08\/oregon-dmv-discovers-dozens-of-new-voter-registrations-of-non-u-s-citizens-though-none-has-voted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than 1,600<\/a> potential ineligible voters on the rolls. Out of this number, 10 cast ballots, the Oregon Capital Chronicle reported. While the Oregon DOJ is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opb.org\/article\/2025\/02\/10\/oregon-elections-officials-noncitizen-voting-doj-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">considering<\/a> investigating three of these cases, according to OPB, the secretary of state&rsquo;s office is &ldquo;still looking into&rdquo; the rest.<\/p>\n<p>Also in September, Bowman and members of the state House Rules Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/olis.oregonlegislature.gov\/liz\/mediaplayer?clientID=4879615486&amp;eventID=2024091049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interviewed<\/a> election officials about the security gaps that enabled the state &ldquo;motor voter&rdquo; process to place noncitizens on the rolls. Officials have uncovered more ineligible registrants since the hearing.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got the nine folks who voted, but then we&rsquo;ve got 1,250 folks who were registered,&rdquo; Bowman said at the time. &ldquo;I am concerned &mdash; those folks did not ask to be registered, they did not ask to have a ballot mailed to them, they did not ask to get put on a list of someone who has, you know, violated the terms of whatever citizenship process they are engaged in.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Bowman asked the then-Elections Director Molly Woon how officials would protect these people from harm &ldquo;because of actions taken by the government, not by them.&rdquo; Woon responded that officials were &ldquo;working with experts in immigration law.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;We are in the process of finalizing &hellip; a no-fault letter &hellip;. instructions to this universe of people on how they can get a no-fault letter from us that they can use if they decide to go through, or are pursuing, the citizenship process,&rdquo; Woon said at the time. She said the letters were set to be mailed to ineligible registrants around the date of the hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Woon also said counties sent letters to every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nevadans-blast-elections-chief-for-impeding-voter-roll-challenges\/\" title=\"Nevadans Blast ...s Chief For Impeding Voter Roll Challenges\">potentially ineligible registrant<\/a> on the rolls, offering a chance to prove eligibility and reregister to vote. If clerks could not verify the citizenship of nine individuals who may have voted illegally, she said the &ldquo;investigations team&rdquo; in the secretary of state&rsquo;s Elections Division would send letters giving a chance &ldquo;to demonstrate if they are in fact eligible.&rdquo;<strong> <\/strong>&ldquo;If they fail to do so, we will refer the cases to DOJ,&rdquo; Woon said at the time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The leftist <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/brennan-center-for-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lawfare group<\/a> Brennan Center for Justice has argued automatic voter registration will &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/our-work\/research-reports\/case-automatic-voter-registration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">increase accuracy<\/a>&rdquo; and &ldquo;improve the security&rdquo; of elections. Corporate publications like The Washington Post have repeatedly argued that automatic voter registration is &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/09\/23\/voter-registration-fraud-suppression\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more accurate<\/a>,&rdquo; and USA Today even used Oregon as an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/graphics\/2024\/09\/22\/states-with-automatic-voter-registration\/75254847007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">example<\/a> of how the system boosts voter turnout. But in Pennsylvania, officials had to launch an <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/16\/exclusive-pennsylvania-motor-voter-system-will-be-audited-for-noncitizen-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">audit<\/a> to ensure the &ldquo;motor voter&rdquo; system had not been registering noncitizens. And clearly, there were enough security lapses in Oregon&rsquo;s &ldquo;motor voter&rdquo; system to register more than 1,600 potentially ineligible voters.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&ldquo;Through that process you had, there [were] no safeguards to catch this?,&rdquo; Republican state Rep. Jeff Helfrich asked DMV Administrator Amy Joyce at the time. &ldquo;You didn&rsquo;t have anything set up ahead of time to audit this?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s correct,&rdquo; Joyce replied.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As The Federalist previously reported, the Oregon DMV also processed more than 54,600 voter registrations for individuals of &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/22\/oregon-dmv-busted-allowing-people-of-unknown-citizenship-to-register-to-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">unknown citizenship<\/a>&rdquo; between June 2021 and October 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Republican state Rep. Kim Wallan expressed concern that her previous questions about the security of Oregon&rsquo;s &ldquo;motor voter&rdquo; system were dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;&lsquo;How can we be sure that only citizens are registered to vote?&rsquo; I&rsquo;ve asked that question multiple times. &hellip; I was so disturbed by the nonanswers that I got, because I usually got the answer, &lsquo;It&rsquo;s fine, we check. We know that people are not being registered if they&rsquo;re not citizens,&rsquo;&rdquo; Wallan said at the time. &ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t have really systems in place; we certainly didn&rsquo;t have checks. &hellip; It seems like it mattered <em>who<\/em> asked, <em>who<\/em> made this general inquiry. So who was it that made this general inquiry, and why did you respond to that differently than you did when we asked that question?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In response, Joyce said, &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think it matters who asked,&rdquo; but she named the left-wing <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/institute-for-responsive-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Institute for Responsive Government<\/a> (IRG). &ldquo;We don&rsquo;t have any, you know, contracts with them or anything like that, I think they&rsquo;re sort of a good government, perhaps nonprofit.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But the IRG is far more than a &ldquo;good government&rdquo; group. It is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/organization\/institute-for-responsive-government-irg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">project<\/a> of the New Venture Fund under the leftist dark money giant Arabella Advisors &mdash; which <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/04\/10\/arabella-sheds-light-on-the-dark-money-groups-remaking-america-millions-of-dollars-at-a-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">creates and funds<\/a> left-wing activist groups with millions from anonymous donors, according to InfluenceWatch. IRG <a href=\"https:\/\/responsivegov.org\/automatic-voter-registration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">argues<\/a> automatic voter registration is a &ldquo;modern and secure solution.&rdquo; As The Federalist previously reported, the group offered <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/23\/zuckbucks-org-promotes-6-million-election-grant-from-left-wing-dark-money-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$6 million<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/zuckbucks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Zuckbucks<\/a>-style grants to election officials ahead of November&rsquo;s election.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>IRG Executive Director Sam Oliker-Friedland is chief counsel for the leftist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/center-for-secure-and-modern-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Center for Secure and Modern Elections<\/a> (CSME), which is also part of the Arabella Advisors network. CSME also <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/12\/19\/oregon-elections-director-resigns-months-after-hundreds-of-noncitizens-found-registered-to-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">meddled<\/a> in election administration in 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As The Federalist previously <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/12\/19\/oregon-elections-director-resigns-months-after-hundreds-of-noncitizens-found-registered-to-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>, after officials found Oregon&rsquo;s system had registered noncitizens to vote, Woon and other top officials planned a briefing <a href=\"https:\/\/oregonroundup.substack.com\/p\/koteks-office-sought-emergency-noncitizen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">call<\/a> with CSME. Before Read replaced his predecessor (then-Oregon Secretary of State Lavonne Griffin-Valade, another Democrat), Woon and other top election officials announced they were <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/12\/19\/oregon-elections-director-resigns-months-after-hundreds-of-noncitizens-found-registered-to-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">resigning<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Logan Washburn is a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">staff writer covering election integrity<\/a>. He is a spring 2025 fellow of The College Fix. He graduated from Hillsdale College, served as Christopher Rufo&#8217;s editorial assistant, and has bylines in The Wall Street Journal, The Tennessean, and The Daily Caller. Logan is from Central Oregon but now lives in rural Michigan.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oregon officials are sending three alleged noncitizen voter cases to the DOJ after over 1,600 potential noncitizens were registered<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":507,"featured_media":2404039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Oregon_Capitol_.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[50639,50638,6642],"class_list":["post-2404038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-mass-mail-ballots","tag-motor-voter","tag-oregon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Oregon_Capitol_.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/507"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404038"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404042,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404038\/revisions\/2404042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2404039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}