• The Oregon Secretary of State’s website has a Voting & Elections page full of information and resources including a site to register, update your registration, search for candidate and measure filings, look at historical results, data and more.
• Please also consider looking at the Election Division's Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).

Voter registration updates are processed every day and from a variety of sources.

• Voters submit physical and online voter registration cards.
• When voters submit a change of address with the post office, that information is then shared with the election office.
• When voters update their address with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), that information is then shared with the election office.
• The Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) is a nonprofit, multi-state, collaborative that uses information from the DMV, other county and other state sources for data matching and analysis. This is one of the ways the election office might know if a voter registered or died in another state.
• The election offices will regularly send out non-forwardable pieces of mail. Every election, ballots are sent to the address on file, and if they can’t be delivered, they are returned with a yellow label explaining why. Anytime a voters’ registration is updated, a Voter Notification Card (VNC) is sent out. This is another non-forwardable piece of mail that would be returned if it couldn’t be delivered to the address provided.
• When a piece of non-forwardable mail is returned to us as undeliverable, without a new Coos County address on the yellow postal label, this office may inactivate the voter. When a voter is inactivated, a Voter Confirmation Card (VCC) is sent out. This is a forwardable piece of mail stating that a voter’s registration is inactive and explaining how to become active again. This mailing includes a pre-paid postcard that can be returned to re-activate the voters’ record.
• When a voter dies, we find out from a variety of sources as well. The election office reviews local obituaries and takes individual notices from family members. We also receive weekly lists of people who have died from our local vital records as well as monthly lists from the State of Oregon.

AI is being used to create misleading images, audio, and video in elections nationwide, amplifying both the reach and realism of misinformation. AI makes election misinformation faster, cheaper, and more convenient. The most effective defense is:

• Source Verification,
• Skepticism of Emotionally Charged Claims,
• Reliance on Official Information, and
• Restraint in Sharing Unverified Content

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• The machines that tabulate votes are tested before and after every election to ensure they are working correctly. One instance of this testing is known as Public Certification and is open to the public before every election.
• Two full-time staff members, of different political parties, review the tabulated votes in a process called “adjudication.” To learn more about that process, see the explanation and examples on the Observation page of the Coos County website.
• After every statewide and federal election, county clerk’s perform post-election reviews. In Coos County, we hand count a portion of the ballots with bi-partisan teams to ensure they match the records produced by the tabulation machines.

Interested in seeing one of these processes? Want to see a different part of the election process? Consider signing up to observe! Check out the Observation page of the Coos County website to learn more.

Misinformation - Information that is false, but not created or shared with the intention of causing harm.

Malinformation - Information that is based on fact, but used out of context to mislead, harm, or manipulate a person, organization, or country.

Disinformation - False information that is deliberately created to mislead, harm, or manipulate a person, social group, organization, or country.

- Definitions from Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)