When Oregon’s election law is violated, as happened last week when political consultant Mark Nelson (for the Measures 66 and 67 opposition campaign) mailed a counterfeit ballot to scores of thousands of voters, exactly who is responsible for enforcement?
Obviously Secretary of State Kate Brown hasn’t the courage to enforce the law.
Since Ms. Brown has utterly failed to defend Oregon voters from being disenfranchised, then I propose that legal action must be taken against Mark Nelson and the anti-66 and 67 campaign.
The opposition campaign’s mailing of the so-called “survey,” which thousands of voters will have mistaken for legitimate ballots, is illegal, despicable and reprehensible.
Unsuspecting voters will have marked and mailed the fake ballots thinking they were voting in the election. When voters receive the genuine ballot, they would assume they had already cast their vote and not mark and mail their actual ballot, knowing that voting more than once is fraudulent.
I ask that legislators collectively file a legal complaint with Attorney Gen. John Kroger, and in court Monday morning, demanding that Nelson and the “no” on 66 and 67 campaign suffer grimly serious consequences for the shameful, egregious disenfranchisement of Oregon voters.
Please demand that the “no” on 66 and 67 forces be censured, discredited, heavily fined and that the NO campaign must apologize publicly to all citizens and voters of Oregon. The attorney general and legislators should ask the Oregon court system to require a public apology and admission of wrongdoing by the 66 and 67 oppposition campaign and by Mark Nelson.  The public apology and admission of violation of election law should be printed in every newspaper around the state and broadcast via radio and television announcements which should by paid for by 66 and 67 opposition campaign funds.
We must not tolerate or allow this type of sleazy campaign tactics to undermine the democratic process in our state.
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