As mentioned on the Home Page I was not that interested in elections when I first moved back to Bandon in 2019. Some people, knowing my background in computers, asked if I could help them out by looking at election records for 2020.
The following information explains the issues encountered since that time.
The first instance was when they tried to get ballot images from the Clerk. They wanted to charge thousands of dollars to get ballot images, said they had a hard drive crash, and then blocked efforts to get the data recovered.
This resulted in the first Audit Oregon article about the Curious Case of Coos County - 2020.
Read that article to get more information.
After the ballot images were lost because of a hard drive crash, the Clerk quit. The County needed to appoint an interim Clerk to take over duties.
The Audit Oregon article The Curious Case of Coos County - 2021 describes in detail how the appointment process had many curious aspects.
The interim Clerk conducted the 2022 Primary Election. There were many curious issues involved with this election.
The Curious Case of Coos County - 2022 describes in detail what those issues were.
When we asked for important log files from the election they only gave us more questions.
The The Curious Case of Coos County - Log Off article describes this in detail.
One of the methods to get things changed is to get measures put on a ballot for an election. There are different levels of measures. Initiatives and referendums can change laws but advisory questions can not.
We tried to get advisory ballot measures put on the ballot. The The Curious Case of Coos County - Ill Advisory article explains how this seemingly simple process can be subverted.
The are more recent versions of instances where things got curious, but that is all for now. I'll update this page when I get time.