In brief
How to watch election night results in Deschutes County
It’s as simple as checking the links, right? Hopefully! First results are released after 8pm Polls close at 8pm. Deschutes
Political ads are hitting TV early. Here’s how to track them in Central Oregon.
State candidates report their campaign finances in Orestar. Federal candidates report to the FEC. When they buy ad time on TV or radio, though, the station who runs the ad also has to report it separately to the FCC in what are called Public Inspection Files.
Don’t Trust Strangers: Politics Edition
We have a transparency problem in this town and it seems to keep coming from the same source.
Gregg Henton is an angry comments guy
Language warning This post reproduces social media posts from a school board candidate containing NSFW and hateful language. This post
Back of the napkin GIS sketch on redistricting
Any talk of redistricting needs to focus on giving Central Oregon more coherent representation. Bend grew astronomically since 2010, but
Features

A map of tax lots in Bend where the owner’s mailing address is not Oregon
Anyone want to guess which states the colors are? Purple is probably an easy one.

Redistricting 2021
Oregon has new maps for voting districts.

Election 2021 Precinct Maps
I still have a good bit of work to do cleaning up these maps and adding more detail, more election