司法部致函俄勒冈州务卿警告选票记录保存义务：州务卿回应已收逾百万张选票、约占寄出三分之一
俄勒冈州马里昂县塞勒姆市传出选前新动态：美国司法部10月29日致函俄勒冈州务卿托比亚斯·里德，提醒其注意选举记录保存义务，里德10月30日作出回应。
据《Statesman Journal》10月30日报道，司法部代理副部长特伦特·麦科特在10月29日的信中提醒里德，选举官员须在选举后保存记录22个月，不遵守可能面临最高一年监禁或1000美元罚款。这封信据称发往全国各州，距俄勒冈州约两周前开始向选民寄出选票不久。
里德在10月30日的回信中说，俄勒冈州的选举“正在顺利进行”，截至10月30日上午8时，州务卿办公室已收到逾百万张选票，约占寄出选票的三分之一。里德写道：“在俄勒冈州，我们认真对待保护自由公正选举的责任，我们遵守法律、俄勒冈州宪法和美利坚合众国宪法，联邦政府也应当如此。”
报道指出，这不是俄勒冈州与特朗普政府在选举问题上的首次摩擦，司法部10月22日已表示将在11月3日向姆尔特诺默县派出选举监督员。麦科特的信还多次把里德的姓氏拼错，成为这封警告信的一个注脚。投票日为11月3日，俄勒冈州选民仍可通过邮寄或投票点交回选票。
来源：GSM·美国
Justice Department Warns Oregon Secretary of State on Records Retention in October 29 Letter; Read Responds, Reporting over One Million Ballots Returned
Salem, Marion County, Oregon — The U.S. Department of Justice sent a letter on October 29 to Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read reminding him of election records retention obligations, and Read responded on October 30.
According to the Statesman Journal's October 30 report, Acting Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter advised Read in the October 29 letter that election officials must preserve records for 22 months after an election, and that failure to do so could mean up to a year in prison or a $1,000 fine. The letter was reportedly sent to all states, about two weeks after Oregon began mailing ballots to voters.
In his October 30 response, Read said Oregon's elections are "well underway": as of 8 a.m. on October 30, the Secretary of State's Office had received more than one million ballots, about a third of those sent out. "In Oregon, we take our responsibility to protect free and fair American elections seriously," Read wrote. "We follow the law, the Oregon Constitution, and the Constitution of the United States of America. The federal government should do the same."
The report noted this is not Oregon's first friction with the Trump administration over elections: the Justice Department said on October 22 it would send election monitors to Multnomah County on November 3. McCotter's letter also misspelled Read's last name several times. Election Day is November 3, and Oregon voters can still return ballots by mail or at drop sites.
Source: GSM America
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