MULTNOMAH COUNTY, Ore. — Multnomah County recorded the lowest ballot-return rate of Oregon’s 36 counties by late Wednesday afternoon, according to the Oregon Secretary of State’s ballot-return report.
By Tuesday morning, October 27, Oregon had recorded 730,011 ballot returns, compared with 590,526 received eight days before the 2022 general election, an increase of 23.6%. The reports used slightly different cutoffs.
Multnomah Has Returned Fewer Than 24% of Its Ballots
Of 591,269 registered voters in Multnomah County, 141,445 ballots, or 23.92%, had been received. This was about seven percentage points below the statewide return rate.
Oregon has 3,117,439 active voters. By 4:31 p.m. on October 28, it had received 963,640 ballots, a return rate of 30.91%…