With only a week to go before the local elections on May 20, Multnomah County Elections is prodding Portlanders to converge on a singular goal - casting their ballots and making their voices heard. In a recent Multnomah County news release, they've rolled out the “Let's Make a Plan to Vote” strategy, encouraging those who've yet to submit their ballots to do so pronto.
On the ballots are positions impacting education from school district boards to community college boards, along with crucial service district leadership roles, like those wielding influence over water quality and urban flood safety, those ballots should have reached all eligible voters as of May 8. If your mailbox remains empty or a replacement is in order, you can make a call to 503.988.VOTE or go digital on the Elections' website for a quick ballot fix. The Multnomah County Voters’ Pamphlet, mailed to residents and available online, serves as a primer on candidates and measures alike.
The final push for electoral participation kicks up a notch with extended hours for voter assistance starting Saturday, May 17: the Voting Center Express in Gresham and the Multnomah County Duniway-Lovejoy Elections Building in Southeast Portland will offer weekend and evening hours. Voters can either mail in their ballots - no need for stamps - or drop them off at one of 32 official Multnomah County Ballot Drop Sites.
To keep their finger on the pulse of their precious vote, residents can tap into the Track Your Ballot service to get real-time updates in multiple languages; and when those language barriers loom high, Multnomah County Election's multilingual staff or an interpreter will swoop in to navigate through any electoral quandaries.
