Oregon officials have decided not to conduct criminal investigations of any of the 39 individuals who were mistakenly registered to vote in Oregon and cast ballots in recent years.

The Secretary of State’s Office says that’s because all of those individuals were either eligible to vote when they did so, or there is no substantial evidence showing that these individuals knowingly violated the law when they voted.

The group represents a small fraction of the 1,863 individuals that employees at the Oregon DMV in recent years allowed to register to vote through various clerical errors. Since the Secretary of State’s Office learned of the errors last year, the agency has implemented several guardrails to prevent similar mistakes in the future.

“The Secretary of State’s Office will not re

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