On the Oregon trail: in a backlash against new electronic calamities, vote by mail spreads far beyond its roots, one county at a time.(VOTE BY MAIL)
American Prospect, The, May, 2006 by Rosenfeld, Sam
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OREGON'S STATEWIDE VOTE-BY-MAIL SYSTEM remains unique--for now. But with little fanfare, liberalized absentee balloting laws elsewhere have prompted a steady expansion of mail voting. In the process, popular support is growing, from the ground up. States are following the gradualist pattern of expansion first set in Oregon. Laws permitting at-will absentee registration in dozens of states, and permanent absentee registration policies in California and elsewhere, are expanding the pool of voters who know and like the process.
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