Oregon not required to give feds voter data, judge rules

Ryan Patraw process ballots at the Marion County Clerk’s Office in Salem on Monday, May 16. Each ballot goes through several steps before it is scanned to have the vote tabulated. (Photo by Ron Cooper/Oregon Capital Chronicle)

SALEM, OR – A federal judge tentatively ruled Wednesday that Oregon does not have to hand over personally identifiable data of more than 3 million Oregon voters to the federal government. In an oral ruling Wednesday evening,