Four years ago, Gov. Tina Kotek narrowly won the state's top seat. Now she faces a tough rematch against Republican challenger state Sen. Christine Drazan, with polls showing a neck-and-neck race just two weeks before Election Day. Why it matters: Recent polling suggests the two are in a dead heat. A poll from OPB showed Drazan leading 47% to 46%, while the Oregonian put Kotek ahead 46% to 44% — both within the margin of error. State of play:...

Oregon's secretary of state recommends mailing ballots by Tuesday to reduce the risk that a late postmark could disqualify your vote. State of play: Ballots in Oregon are counted for up to seven days after an election,

The Oregon Secretary of State's Office took down a test election website after a system update accidentally exposed it to public search engines.

Tina Kotek called for the creation of universal childcare by 2031 if elected to a second term. Anastasia Mason

Mail-in ballots are being rejected at a growing rate in rural areas thanks to U.S. Postal Service cuts. ProPublica reports that in the primaries this year in Oregon, North Carolina, Washington, California, and Ohio, a staggering amount of ballots arrived too late to be counted due to delays in mail delivery. Three days after primary elections in Stevens County, Washington, election workers checked the mail for late ballots. They found over 500...

The outcome of just one or two state legislative races in November’s election could substantially shape Oregonians’ lives in the coming years, and that’s why powerful political groups and wealthy individuals are dropping millions of dollars into key contests. In southern Oregon, a Republican business leader is trying to flip a Senate seat in order to break a Democratic supermajority in the ...

Katrina Gill is a registered Republican but that doesn’t mean she always wants to vote for one, she said. Oregon election rules restrict party primaries to voters registered with those parties, and that limits the 58-year-old Cornelius resident to the Republican ballot in May contests. “It’s just a silly rule,” said Gill, a former general manager for a transportation company. “I don’t ...

Actor and progressive activist Jane Fonda made appearances in Salem and Portland to support Oregon Democratic candidates for the November election.

For those who read, as I did, The Oregonian/OregonLive’s dispirited, ambivalent endorsement for Gov. Tina Kotek, the editorial board clearly made a strong case to choose her opponent (“Editorial endorsement November 2026: A dispirited endorsement for Kotek,