[EM] Happy election day, fellow Americans

[mrouse1 at mrouse.com]

You can call the county election office at any time to see if your vote has been received. The ballots are only counted on election day, and are secured beforehand. There are two envelopes -- a return envelope and a sealed secrecy envelope holding the ballot. On election day, all secrecy envelopes are separated from their return envelopes to ensure the vote remains secret.

Here is some more info on it: http://www.sos.state.or.us/executive/votebymail/

--- raphfrk at gmail.com wrote:

From: "Raph Frank" <raphfrk at gmail.com>
To: "Michael Rouse" <mrouse1 at mrouse.com>
Cc: election-methods at lists.electorama.com
Subject: Re: [EM] Happy election day, fellow Americans
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 21:40:14 +0000

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Michael Rouse <mrouse1 at mrouse.com> wrote:
> Well, and brag that in Oregon, we have universal vote-by-mail, so we can
> lounge around with a beer in one hand and a voter pamphlet in the other
> while filling out our ballot. :)

... and cross your fingers that the vote is actually counted?  ...
though knowing nothing about Oregon, maybe that isn't an issue.