Oregon announces plan to begin removing 800,000 inactive voter registrations after years of delays and mounting legal pressure from lawsuits filed against the state.

Oregon's Democratic Secretary of State Tobias Read said last week that the state is expected to purge 160,000 of its 800,000 inactive voters from the registry immediately, after they failed to meet the criteria to keep their registration active.

After nearly a decade of stalled maintenance and growing legal pressure, Oregon election officials are preparing to strike hundreds of

Unlike most states, Oregon does not remove all voters who fail to vote in two consecutive presidential general elections from its voter rolls. Instead, it designates most of them as “inactive voters.” That designation has largely the same effect as removing them from the voter list, however: Elections officials no longer send those people ballots.

Parts of an executive order on elections exceeded President Donald Trump's authority, a judge ruled Jan. 9 in a suit filed by Oregon and Washington.

A federal judge blocked President Trump's administration from enforcing most of his executive order on elections against the vote-by-mail states Washington and Oregon.

Oregon will go back to removing inactive voter registrations, Secretary of State Tobias Read said. Here's what to know.

The article outlines a public hearing for the proposed rules of Oregon's Motor Voter program, stressing the importance of public input in enhancing the system's accuracy and inclusivity.

A federal court ruled that Trump lacked authority to rewrite federal election rules without congressional approval.

In addition to the gubernatorial race, half of Oregon’s state senators and all of its state representatives will be up for reelection. Democrats are in the supermajority in both chambers, with 37-23 in the state house and 18-12 in the state senate.

Oregonians registering to vote must sign a statement swearing they are a U.S. citizen who is eligible to vote. Under Oregon’s 2016 Motor Voter law, people who obtain or renew a driver’s license are automatically registered to vote if they submit proof of U.S. citizenship.