Oregon announces plan to begin removing 800,000 inactive voter registrations after years of delays and mounting legal pressure from lawsuits filed against the state.

Oregon’s failure to pare back its voter rolls started in 2017 after then-Secretary of State Dennis Richardson removed the warning from Oregon voter confirmation cards that those inactive voters would be disenfranchised if they failed to vote in two federal general elections, Read’s office said Friday.

Oregon's Democratic Secretary of State Tobias Read said last week that the state is expected to purge 160,000 of its 800,000 inactive voters from the registry immediately, after they failed to meet the criteria to keep their registration active.

After nearly a decade of stalled maintenance and growing legal pressure, Oregon election officials are preparing to strike hundreds of

Parts of an executive order on elections exceeded President Donald Trump's authority, a judge ruled Jan. 9 in a suit filed by Oregon and Washington.

A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing most of his executive order on elections against the vote-by-mail states Washington and Oregon, in the latest b

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's attempt to assert federal control over elections in Washington and Oregon. The lawsuit, filed jointly with Oregon in the Western District of Washington,

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's executive order that sought to change election rules in Washington and Oregon.

Thanks to pressure from the Trump administration, as well as other plaintiffs like Judicial Watch, Oregon is finally taking steps to clean its outdated voter rolls. Late […]

A federal judge in Washington state on Friday permanently blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a 2025 executive order that sought to require voters prove citizenship and that all ballots be received by Election Day.

Oregon will go back to removing inactive voter registrations, Secretary of State Tobias Read said. Here's what to know.

In addition to the gubernatorial race, half of Oregon’s state senators and all of its state representatives will be up for reelection. Democrats are in the supermajority in both chambers, with 37-23 in the state house and 18-12 in the state senate.