One of the motivations for this law was that the fit members of society were suffering economically by paying taxes to keep jails and asylums open and running. The cost of these taxes was making it difficult for “desirable” people to have and take care of “desirable” children. Jack Skinner was chosen as the test case for the new law and he personally believed that people should be sterilized if they are insane or cannot take care of their children. Skinner had been convicted of stealing chickens in college and armed robbery twice, fulfilling the requirement for three felonies. The prosecution had no evidence that he had inherited this behavior from his mother and father and there has not been enough science to show who will raise unfit children. Laughlin, believed that antisocial behavior was a product of the “germ plasm," meaning it needed to be "weeded out" of the gene pool. Laughlin knew that making sterilization seem solely like a punishment would be shot down by the courts due to it being unconstitutional thus, he turned his focus more on punishing people who he deemed feeble-minded like Carrie Buck to clear the streets and protect the public. The Oklahoma Habitual Criminal Sterilization Act of 1935 stated that the state could order compulsory sterilization for any person, who had been convicted of two crimes of “moral turpitude” and is then convicted another crime. The Associated Press and Travis Pittman contributed to this report.Eugenicists, such as Harry H. Fagan’s office reportedly offered Hall extra help when the problem was revealed, but Hall said she had enough resources. Clackamas County Elections Clerk Sherry Hall said it was too late, at that point, to print and mail new ballots. The Associated Press reported that the issue was known as far back as May 3 - two weeks before the election. The voter’s intent must be transferred by hand to a new ballot in each instance. On the Republican side, Lori Chavez-Deremer has seen her lead increase over Jimmy Crumpacker to a 13% gap.Īs many as 60,000 ballots were unreadable by vote-counting machines because of blurry barcode. Kurt Schrader by about 18% for the Democratic nomination, a margin that has decreased since election night. Terrebonne attorney Jamie McLeod-Skinner is leading incumbent Rep. House seat from Oregon’s 5th district remains in the balance. RELATED: Oregon blurry ballot issues known 2 weeks before election
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The Bend Bulletin reports Fagan is expected to release details to the public once her office reviews the plan. “I continued to push them and will continue to push them to provide a written plan with regular benchmarks so that I, you and the public can confirm that they are on track to produce timely results,” Fagan said during a news conference Tuesday.
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Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan met with Clackamas County’s top election officials on Monday and was provided with a verbal update on the county’s progress in processing ballots.
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(AP) - Three weeks after Oregon’s third-largest county learned that a majority of their ballots had blurry barcodes and unreadable by vote-counting machines, state officials have received a timeline from the county as frustrations continue to grow and the results of a key U.S.