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This is predictably getting some traction in the election conspiracy fever swamps. Here’s what they’re trying to do: “🚨🚨🚨36,530 new people! (foreigners probably!) But 263,459 new voters! Numbers don’t match! FRAUD!!!🚨🚨🚨”
No, it’s math. 1/6
Oregon had a net population gain of 36,530 since 2020 - 100% of which are international immigrants.
Yet, in that same time period registered a net gain of 263,459 new "voters."
👀Look:
The first image is a chart of Oregon's net population change since April 2020.
Since then, net migration is flat at -670. International immigration is staggering at +56,700. The birth / death ratio is also alarming at -19,500. The net population gain is +36,530.
The 36,530 net population gain is ALL INTERNATIONAL IMMIGRANTS.
Now, look at the next two images. It's the growth, year over year, of active registered voters in Oregon since 2020 and the current stated active registered voters for this 2026 mid-term election - straight from the Oregon SOS website.
We've had a population increase of 36k international immigrants, since 2020, with 263,459 new active voter registrations in the same time period.
How?
Tell me: how exactly can voter registrations grow 700% larger than population growth of made up of 100% non-citizens?
None of this is believable. None of this is legit.
But that’s not the only source of new voters. In 2020 there were 309,000 unregistered eligible voters. A sizeable pool to draw from. In Nov. 2024 there were 197,000. So in those 4 years that pool was drawn down by 112,000. 5/6
Mark Friesen retweeted
Hell of a thing to demand states hand over voters’ personal information and require proof of citizenship, then refuse to vote yourself because you don’t want your address on the very voter rolls you think the federal government should have access to.
Can’t wait for all the galaxy-brained takes from Twitter randos who are suddenly deep experts on the politics of Yalobusha County.
After updates from a few counties, Scott Colom (D) has a 1138-vote lead over Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) in #MSsen. @MississippiSOS says there are up to 3600 outstanding mail ballots and an unknown number of provisionals left. Both should favor Democrats.
I mean, it’s not complicated. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Kotek underperformed Harris in every county, but Harris beat Trump by 15. Kotek is winning by 7. There’s a lot of room under a 15-point ceiling.
And about 60% of those are in Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas and Lane, so you can guess how that will go.
My ballot has not been counted. Based on the 2022 Oregon gubernatorial turnout, we still have over 400,000 ballots left to count. Do not concede, @ChristineDrazan.
Mark Friesen retweeted
I've been saying it for years, this place is a silo, like most text-based social platforms. there is no "repeal the 19th" cohort. there is no "100 million deportations" cohort. there is no "everyone hates Indian Americans" cohort. people on this website have been "yes and"ing themselves into fake golden ages and meme wars and none of it is real. None of it.
The dumb “mail voting made Oregon blue” take ignores how many statewide Rs since the 50s would be *entirely* unwelcome in today’s GOP. Atiyeh, Frohnmayer, McCall, Hatfield, Packwood, Paulus, Myers, Morse, McNary. RINOs all. It’s not the voting mechanism, it’s where the party went
Portland catching strays in IA-02!
My opponent grew up in Portland, Oregon. She lived in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Massachusetts before moving to Iowa ten years ago.
She immediately ran for office, skipped over 50% of votes in the legislature, and voted to give illegals state-funded benefits and sex changes for minors when she did show up.
We don't judge her for not being from here. We judge her trying to bring her Portland, Oregon values to Iowa.
Mark Friesen retweeted
This is actually a condescending view of working-class people. I grew up in a working-class immigrant family and we ate at Red Lobster and The Cheesecake Factory for "fancy nights out." But even we understood that the White House should not look like the inside of a Red Lobster. Working-class people are not culturally illiterate just because their experiences are shaped by their limited means.
