With less than two weeks until the 2020 election, more than 16% of Oregon’s registered voters have already returned their ballots.  By comparison, data from the Oregon Secretary of State Office’s Elections Division shows at this time during the 2016 presidential election, 12.8% of the state’s voters had mailed their ballot, and it was 11.4% in 2012.  As of this morning, Hood River County reports that 29.1% of the ballots it sent out have already been returned…4,596 out of 15,809 distributed.  And it’s a similar situation in Wasco County, with 4,868 having been received out of the 18,298 mailed out, for 26.6%.  In Oregon, ballots must be received in county election offices or official drop boxes by 8 p.m. on November 3.