Rural Oregon gets screwed either way.

Wait a minute! I thought we were the “gold standard”?!

Tobias Read keeps calling Oregon’s vote-by-mail the “gold standard.”

“Secure, accurate, fair.”

He and the rest of the Dems will fight any change to it-literally foaming at the mouth.

Then his own office tested the mail. Some pieces took four days just to get a postmark. Definitely “gold standard” material Tobes.

One took 11 days to deliver. Fools gold maybe…

Big surprise here but “Rural counties got hit the hardest.”

May primary? Over 7,300 ballots tossed for late postmarks. Up 35% from the last midterm. 7,300!!!

Now he’s telling people to use drop boxes if they want their vote counted.

So the “perfect system” only works if you skip the mail and drive to a box? Even with all that bluster against the USPS?!

Rural Oregon gets screwed either way.

This gold standard is looking more like a convenient excuse every cycle and this time we call them on it.

I call this fools gold.

#oregon #kotek

benedtl ScottPresler Michaela_1776</p>&mdash; Red Wave (RedWaveOR) October 15, 2026