Ballot Tampering Alert - Clackamus County Oregon

This story breaks in Clackamus County Oregon, where a temporary ballot worker was caught and accused of modifying cast mail-in ballots by filling in votes for Republican candidates.

"We can confirm we are currently investigating criminal felony violations of Oregon's election laws, which allegedly took place in Clackamas County and allegedly involved a temporary county elections employee tampering with cast ballots," said Jeff Manning, a department [of Justice]spokesman.

This is the Oregon Secretary of State's worst nightmare.  They don't know how many ballots have been tampered with, and the concern is that this is mostly about down-ballot candidates.  The Oregon state house is split 30-30 between Democrats and Republicans, and with the typically close elections there, this ballot fraud could sway control of the state house. 

It is unlikely that we will know prior to election day  the impact of this event, if it is isolated, or if it is part of a wider attempt to tamper with the vote by Republican operatives