UPDATE: Read Kama’s Comment below: NOT ALL of us have really heavy election ballots requiring extra postage!
You ballot is heavy and MAY require more than a 41 cent stamp!
Here’s an excerpt from the Register-Guard story, One stamp isn’t enough Long ballot needs 59 cents of postage, Oct 21, 2008 09:12AM
Ballots have been mailed. If you didn’t get yours, check your registration or phone your county election office.
Yes, you can check online to make sure you are registered to vote. Link to the Elections Division.
(I last posted about this here.)
Public Resource dot com has started putting various state building, fire, mechanical, etc. codes online, at their codes dot com site.
Keep an eye on the site – and on everything else they are doing at Public Resource dot org – very exciting.
(But, please, be sure to check with your own jurisdiction’s code enforcement staff. Building codes are updated piecemeal and in full, and it takes time for third-party database vendors to update their own holdings from official sources. Links to my previous posts on Building Codes are here and here.)
My previous post on Oregon appellate court briefs should perhaps have been prefaced with links to materials on the appellate process itself, that is, to all the materials at the Oregon Judicial Department (OJD).
1) From here, you can get to these, and many other documents:
a) Oregon Appellate Court Style Manual
b) Court Rules and Rule Amendments
Speaking of the Appellate Courts, there is a call out for submissions for the 2009 edition of the Appellate Almanac. Details are at the OSB Appellate Practice Section homepage; the announcement reads:
“CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR THE 2009 APPELLATE ALMANAC
The Executive Committee of the Appellate Practice Section of the Oregon State Bar is seeking submissions for the 2009 edition of the Oregon Appellate Almanac. The almanac is a year-end review of the appellate world in Oregon. We are looking for submissions that have a connection to the personalities or happenings for appellate practitioners. Articles should range from 500 to 1,000 words. Please use endnotes rather than footnotes if you feel the need to notate your work. You will be notified if your submission is accepted. Your name will appear in the next volume of the Oregon Appellate Almanac.
This blog post is written primarily for the new appellate court brief writer, either the new lawyer or the pro se litigant.
Not all materials on briefs writing are online (surprise, surprise), so be prepared to visit an Oregon law library:
1) OSB “Appeal and Review” (loose leaf) (from the Oregon State Bar or an Oregon law library)
2) Various CLE course materials on the Oregon appeals process (titles vary from law library to law library depending on collection size and purchasing decisions).
Previous Bites:
Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: Bite #1 and Bite #2 (Bill of Rights, 1-6)
Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: Bite #3 (Bill of Rights, 7-12)
Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: #4 (Bill of Rights, 13-20)
Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: #5 (Bill of Rights, 21-30)
Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: #6 (Bill of Rights, 32-39)
Oregon Constitution in Small Bites #7: Bill of Rights, 40-42)
Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: #8 (Bill of Rights, 43-45)
Today:
Oregon Constitution in Small Bites: Bite #9 (Article II, Suffrage and Elections, Sections 1-10)
ARTICLE II
SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS
Sec. 1. Elections free
2. Qualifications of electors
3. Rights of certain electors
4. Residence
5. Soldiers, seamen and marines; residence; right to vote
7. Bribery at elections
8. Regulation of elections
9. Penalty for dueling
10. Lucrative offices; holding other offices forbidden
Think Out Loud is jumping feet first into discussions on upcoming Election 2008 ballot measures (and I just got my voter’s pamphlet in the mail yesterday – a wonk’s delight!):
1) Measure 58 will air on Thursday, October 9th, at 9 a.m. (yes, I meant to post this earlier, but when you are two people serving a county of 500,000+, other duties can take priority over blogging).
2) Other Initiatives Out Loud
“You have until 5 p.m. October 14th to register.”*
If you’ve moved, want to change your party affiliation, or don’t get your ballot (not mailed until October 17th), PLEASE contact your County Election Office for specific instructions!
— In my business (public law library wonkery) I see reminders about voting everywhere I turn, but not everyone is so blessed. Thus, this blog post (and these previous ones about ballot measures and checking your voter registration online).
— Official voter registration info pages are here and here, but it’s really hard to find actual dates on these web pages.
Jack Bogs Blog points us to a NYT story, the latest on public access to law and the Oregon dispute:
He fought the law and … he won.
I posted about this Oregon Revised Statute dispute here and here.
Oregon Legal Research Blog