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 failure to pare back its voter rolls started in 2017 after then-Secretary of State Dennis Richardson removed the warning from Oregon voter confirmation cards that those inactive voters would be disenfranchised if they failed to vote in two federal general elections, Read’s office said Friday.

Wednesday marked the beginning of oral arguments in a case that could determine whether Oregon is required to turn over sensitive voter information to the United States Department of Justice.

The state paused such housekeeping in 2017 but will now cancel registrations of those who neither receive ballots nor vote. By NIGEL JAQUISS Oregon Journalism Project As Oregon kicks off a general election year,

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

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.

Local election officials are restarting the cleanup of outdated voter registration records across Oregon. Secretary of State Tobias Read announced two new directives aimed at removing inactive registrations from the state’s voter rolls.

A skeptical federal judge heard arguments Wednesday over whether the federal government is entitled to private, personally identifiable data of more than 3 million Oregon voters. The U.S. Department of Justice demanded last summer that Oregon and other states hand over a wide range of information,

A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing most of his executive order on elections against the vote-by-mail states Washington and Oregon, in the latest b

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

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.

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.