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County Clerk Offers Transparency on Voting Process

What happens to your vote after you submit it, signature verification and important voter deadlines

As election day approaches and voter ballots are mailed out on April 29, the Deschutes County Clerk provided community members key information they should know about the process and behind the scenes counting activity.  Steve Dennison spoke about the importance of voter registration, key voter deadlines, how votes are verified and internal processes when votes […]

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Election Results

Some change, and some of the same

The mood at the downtown lounge Velvet was subdued. The snowboard video had been switched over to PBS and election results from the east coast were scrolling silently across the scene. City council candidate Nathan Boddie stood silently by the TV screen. It was 8:12 pm and the election results were scheduled to post any […]

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And the winners are…

Barring a shift in the late number, here are your results for the Nov. 2014 election. For more details on the election, and the implications of the results, check out our print issueโ€”online and on stands later today. CANDIDATES BEND CITY COUNCILOR 5: NATHAN BODDIE (55 percent) BEND CITY COUNCILOR 6: CASEY ROATES (45 percent) […]

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Replacing Politics with Policies

Last week, Jodie Barram waltzed through the primary as the Democratic nominee for Deschutes County Commissioner Position One with 98 percent of the vote, while her Republican counterpart, Tony DeBone, raked in 81 percent of the vote for his party’s nomination—numbers usually reserved for the Prime Minister of North Korea or Vladimir Putin. Which isn’t […]

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