Was Your Oregon Ballot Counted? Care About GMO labeling? Check the Database

According to the Oregon Secretary of State’s Office there are 13,000 contested ballots in the November election because voters either forgot to sign, or their signatures didn’t match. That’s more ballots than it took to win some of the races — and that GMO labeling measure is darn close 49.83 for and 50.17 no according to the most recent election results.

Lane County voters liked the GMO measure, by the way, with 57.6 in gavor and 42.4 against.

The Salem Statesman-Journal has taken advantage of the 2013 law that allows the names of voters with contested ballots to be released (as did some Democrats in the primary) and the newspaper has put the names of the voters into a database. Want to see if your ballot was counted (or your friends’ or your neighbors’ — it’s a little creepy stalkery that way? Click below and search away.