Posted on 06/08/2023 10:03:26 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA
A central Oregon county scheduled an election to test support for becoming part of Idaho on Wednesday morning, less than 24 hours after final results from a May election in an eastern Oregon county showed a victory for supporters of the “Greater Idaho” movement.
The razor-thin vote in Wallowa County means that 12 Oregon counties have voted to move toward a long-shot effort to redraw the state’s boundary with Idaho that would turn close to 400,000 Oregonians into Idahoans and give the Gem State control of almost two-thirds of Oregon’s land. The next to vote is Crook County, after the county court voted Wednesday morning to send a question to the May 2024 ballot asking whether county officials should advocate for moving the state border.
None of the measures approved by eastern Oregon voters will actually change the boundary – nor could they. That would take action from both state legislatures and the U.S. Congress. Instead, voters have directed their county officials to regularly discuss changing state borders or lobby state and federal officials.
(Excerpt) Read more at idahocapitalsun.com ...
Not quite. It is 2/3 of the land area but a much smaller fraction of the population.
The communists want to be able to tax us for their crazy schemes, but not allow us any voice in government.
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