A handful of local advocacy and nonprofit groups are denouncing a recent budget increase for the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office to pay for an anticipated uptick in criminal prosecutions of drug crimes. A letter signed by Safety and Justice Oregon, Portland for All, Next Up Action Fund, Unite Oregon, Partners for a Hunger-Free Oregon, and the Oregon Food Bank was sent to County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson on Thursday. It addresses a quiet move.
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the Coalition of Communities of Color, Next Up Action Fund, and Oregon Ranked Choice Voting filed the Voter Choice Act, Initiative Petition 27, with the Oregon Secretary of State’s Office. The Voter Choice Act will establish ranked choice voting for all federal, statewide, and legislative races in Oregon. If approved by voters at the November 2024 election, ranked choice voting would take effect for the 2026 election cycle.
This year, Oregon has the opportunity to lead with our democratic values again. By passing Senate Bill 579, Oregon legislators have an opportunity to reject racism and restore voting rights for incarcerated Oregonians. Blocking people with felony convictions from voting started in the Jim Crow era as an intentional strategy to keep Black people from voting a way to continue the disenfranchisement of slavery.