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      It was a clerical error that registered a tiny amount of non-citizens to vote when they got drivers licenses.

      The intentional action is to fix that so the ballots are invalid.

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        …or somebody did this intentionally to cause concern about “illegals voting” in a state’s election.

        If this is a one-off, write this off as paranoia, but more than a few Trump supports all over the country who have worked their way into the election cycle have been told to pull this shit by Trump’s own campaign. Steve Bannon ran a whole camp for these assholes instructing them on how to cause chaos and sow discord in the election cycle earlier this year.

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          Oh, no, the problem initiated from the DMV, not any elections officials. It’s the poor bastards in elections having to clean up the mess.

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            Correct. Context for non Oregonians, we have a law that auto-registers people as voters when they sign up for a government ID or driver’s license through the DMV. The citizenship check got mixed up on the DMV’s side as they’re supposed to verify it.

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                Probably the secretary of state republican candidate Dennis Linthicum, who has actively sued the state to end vote by mail and originally got elected by literally stealing a primary election by abusing filing deadlines in cahoots with the Republican incumbents.

                But it’s OK because he’s a nobody that only people in the shithole empty counties know about, and his opponent has a long history with the state as a rep and state treasurer. Plus oregon very reliably votes blue.