The Malheur Enterprise provides this daily feature to provide up-to-date election information. Here you can get a quick look at how the 2020 general election is going, with daily updates on ballot return information from Malheur County Clerk Gayle Trotter, details on past voting and a collection of stories from[Read More…]
Tag: ELECTION 2020
ELECTION 2020: Walker faces incumbent sheriff on November ballot in Malheur County
Across Oregon, ballots go out in the mail this week for the Nov. 3, 2020, election. (Enterprise file photo) VALE – On the heels of a 22-year career in law enforcement in Malheur County, Casey Walker is challenging the incumbent, Brian Wolfe, in a race for Malheur County Sheriff. Walker, who[Read More…]
ELECTION 2020: Wolfe cites experience in race for re-election as Malheur sheriff
Malheur County Sheriff Brian Wolfe is seeking re-election on the Nov. 3, 2020, ballot. (Enterprise file photo) VALE – Malheur County Sheriff Brian Wolfe is a busy man. On a Wednesday weeks ahead of voting in the two-candidate sheriff race, Wolfe said he was juggling a Zoom meeting about “the[Read More…]
Ballots go out to record voter tally in Malheur County
“Downtown” Ironside is generally a quiet place, with a stand of mailboxes serving as the post office. The Ironside precinct posted a nearly 100% participation in the 2016 presidential election. All 37 voters registered there cast ballots, but one ballot was rejected. (Les Zaitz/The Enterprise) VALE – Now, it’s the[Read More…]
Filings show PACs put their bucks into legislative incumbents in Malheur County
Legislators serving Malheur County are taking in thousands of dollars from political action committees while their challengers in the 2020 election rely almost entirely on modest donations from individuals, according to a review of state campaign spending data. The power of incumbency clearly shows in the financial reports of state[Read More…]
City council candidates are off and running in Malheur County
A ballot drop box sits outside the Malheur County Courthouse. (Malheur Enterprise file photo) Voters will see new faces on city councils in Vale, Ontario and Nyssa after the November election as incumbents retire and candidates compete to replace them. Those serving on city councils are unpaid volunteers who typically[Read More…]
Bentz wins nomination to succeed Walden in Congress
Cliff Bentz, Ontario attorney, won the Republican nomination for the 2nd Congressional District on Tuesday, May 19. (Cliff Bentz photo) Cliff Bentz, an Ontario attorney and former state legislator, on Tuesday won the Republican nomination for the 2nd Congressional District, fighting a thick field of candidates and the upending impact[Read More…]