As the state’s top elections official, she helped bring about a fair election when the Rajneeshees tried in 1984 to bus in homeless people from afar to hijack a local Wasco County election. And she first instituted vote by mail in Oregon, championing its use in normally low-turnout special elections.
As an environmentalist, she required recycling in state office buildings, wrote legislation to limit the use of off-road vehicles on state lands and, according to her autobiography, played a key role in preserving Cape Kiwanda as a state-owned natural area when PGE was targeting it as a nuclear power site.
She had suffered from dementia.
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