Why It Could Take Days To Learn Who Won Oregon’s Primaries
Confession time: We won’t be staying up to wait for Oregon’s primary results tonight. That’s because the results won’t be final for several days. Oregon conducts its elections primarily by mail, and last year it also moved the deadline for ballots to be received from election day to one week after election day (as long as the ballot is postmarked by election day). So while we’ll get a good chunk of the results tonight — perhaps enough to learn the winner in some places — we likely won’t know who won any close contests until those late-arriving ballots are counted.