Oregon Voter Turnout Is Over 50 Percent Curry County Ranks Wednesday, More Than 52% of Returned This Morning
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e SUNNYEdition 66 • 47 | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2020 | theworldlink.com Follow us online: facebook.com/theworldnewspaper twitter.com/TheWorldLink instagram.com/theworldlink Oregon voter turnout is over 50 percent Curry County ranks Wednesday, more than 52% of returned this morning. returned their ballots. During the increase the tax on cigarettes. registered voters in the state had As of Sunday, more than 58 last four presidential elections, So far, more than two-thirds of third in the state with done so, according to the Elec- million ballots have been cast about 40% of voters cast their registered Democrats in Oregon tions Division of the Secretary across the country. Americans’ ballots during Election Day and have returned their ballots. More 59.8 % returned of State. rush to vote is leading election the two day days leading up to it. than half of Republicans have, According to state numbers, experts to predict that a record While Oregonians will vote on a while only a third of non-affiliat- SALEM (AP) — With less Coos County’s return rate was 150 million votes may be cast candidate for president on the Nov. ed voters have cast their votes. than a week to go until Elec- at 50.2%, while Curry County and turnout rates could be higher 3 ballot, they will also vote on In Oregon, ballots must be tion Day, more than half of the was at 59.8% (third highest in than in any presidential election U.S. and state Senate and House returned by 8 p.m. on Election registered voters in Oregon have the state behind Wheeler’s 61.3% since 1908. races as well as decide on ballot Day, Nov. 3. Ballots can either already cast their ballots. and Benton’s 60.3%) and Doug- Nearly 3 million people are measures that could decriminal- be mailed in or returned to a drop At this point during the last las County was at 51.9%. registered to vote in Oregon. ize possession of small amounts site. Any registered voter who three presidential elections, Coos County’s elections During the last two presidential of heroin and cocaine, legalize has not received their ballot yet fewer than 38% of Oregonians department reported an updated elections, between 80% and 82% the therapeutic use of psilocybin should contact their local elec- had returned their ballots. As of total of 56.55% ballots being of registered voters in Oregon mushrooms for legal reasons and tion office. The end of the market season Economy grew at 33.1% in 3rd quarter WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew at a record 33.1% annual rate in the Ju- ly-September quarter but has yet to fully rebound from its plunge in the first half of the year — and the recovery is slowing as coro- navirus cases surge and govern- ment aid dries up. The Commerce Department’s estimate Thursday of third-quar- ter growth showed that the nation has regained only about two- thirds of the output that was lost early this year when the eruption of the virus closed businesses, threw tens of millions out of work and caused the deepest recession since the Great Depres- sion. The economy is now weak- ening again and facing renewed threats. Confirmed viral cases are surging. Hiring has sagged. Fed- eral stimulus has run out. With Zack Demars, The World no further federal aid in sight this Shoppers work their way through the Coos Bay Farmers Market on Wednesday in downtown. The market was the final one of the shortened season, which saw the booths spread year, Goldman Sachs has slashed further apart to encourage social distancing and the shoppers and vendors all wearing masks. Read more about the market and its summer season in Saturday’s edition of The its growth forecast for the current World. fourth quarter to a 3% annual rate from 6%. Gregory Daco, chief U.S. economist at Oxford Economics, Hurricane Zeta speeds across Southeast noted that the record-high third quarter growth in the nation’s At least three deaths “You could hear the tin roof street was covered by mix of and forth in the wind and palm gross domestic product “tells us waving in the wind. ... It was campaign signs, amber and gold trees along Canal Street whipped little, if anything, about momen- are attributed to just rattling. And there was a leaves, and limbs tossed by the furiously as the storm passed. tum heading into” the current couple of snaps, lots of cracks of storm. A few streets away, Billy Along coastal Louisiana, there quarter. storm after it tore branches and trees falling,” she Murdock was out picking up were reports of some trailers “The strong GDP performance through New Orleans said. “It was pretty scary.” branches in his yard. flipped over, a gas station de- gives a false impression of the Officials said life-threaten- “These big old trees, they were stroyed, and downed power lines economy’s true health,” Daco ing conditions would last into swaying. It bothers you,” Mur- and trees. wrote in a research note. “Much NEW ORLEANS (AP) — the day, with Zeta crossing the dock said. “It’s the worst storm Zeta is the 27th named storm of the Q3 gain came from car- Zeta sped across the Southeast mid-Atlantic states as a tropical I’ve been through in Atlanta.” of a historically busy Atlantic ry-over effects from fast progress on Thursday, leaving a trail of storm before moving offshore The storm raged onshore hurricane season — with more in May-July... We anticipate a damage and more than 2 million around Delaware and southern Wednesday afternoon in the than a month left to go. It set a much slower second phase of homes and businesses without New Jersey. small village of Cocodrie, Loui- new record as the 11th named the recovery, with output not power in Atlanta and beyond Leslie Richardson, 58, siana, as a strong Category 2 and storm to make landfall in the reclaiming its pre-COVID level after pounding New Orleans with drowned when he was trapped then moved swiftly across the continental U.S. in a single sea- until late 2021.” winds and water that splintered in rising seawater in Biloxi, New Orleans area. The morning son, well beyond the nine storms The latest GDP reading is homes and were blamed for at Mississippi, after taking video after in New Orleans’ French that hit in 1916. This extraordi- the last major economic report least three deaths. of the raging storm, Harrison Quarter, the wind was blowing narily busy season has focused before Election Day, after a A Category 2 hurricane when County Coroner Brian Switzer lightly as a few people walked to attention on climate change, campaign that President Don- it hit the southeastern Louisiana said. Richardson and another work and some residents swept which scientists say is causing ald Trump has sought to build coast Wednesday, Zeta was still a man exited a floating car and leaves in front of their houses. wetter, stronger and more de- around his economic record tropical storm Thursday morning desperately clung to a tree before Waveland Mayor Mike Smith structive storms. before the pandemic hit. Trump with maximum sustained winds his strength “just gave out,” told WLOX-TV that his Mis- On Tuesday, Zeta raked across has drawn generally solid public of 60 mph (95 kph) about 50 Switzer said. About 25 miles (40 sissippi Gulf Coast city, which Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, support for his handling of the miles (80 kilometers) west of kilometers) west in Long Beach, was part of the area most heavily toppling trees and briefly cutting economy. Asheville, North Carolina — a large boat was washed up on damaged by 2005’s Hurricane power to more than 300,000 peo- On Thursday, the government unusual even in a region accus- the beachfront highway. Katrina, had taken what might ple but causing no deaths. also reported that the number of tomed to hurricanes and their In Louisiana, a 55-year-old be the worst hit since then from It then regained strength over Americans seeking unemploy- aftermath. man was electrocuted by a Zeta. the Gulf of Mexico along a path ment benefits fell slightly last Hundreds of schools canceled downed power line in New Orle- “We’re going to see a whole slightly to the east of those of week to 751,000. That was the classes or planned to open late ans, a coroner said. In Georgia, lot of damage in the morning,” Hurricane Laura, which was fewest weekly applications since across from the Gulf Coast to the authorities said a man was killed Smith said. Among the many blamed for at least 27 deaths in March, but the level remains his- Carolinas. when high winds caused a tree trees blown down was one that Louisiana in August, and Hurri- torically high and indicates that The latest punch from a record to fall onto a mobile home in fell on Smith’s own house. “It cane Delta, which exacerbated the viral pandemic is still forcing hurricane season left people Cherokee County. was my next-door neighbor’s Laura’s damage in the same area many employers to cut jobs. shaken. Will Arute said it sound- Power outages were reported and he wanted to give it to me, weeks later. Though the unemployment ed like a bomb went off when across Louisiana, Mississippi, apparently,” Smith said. The deteriorating weather rate, at 7.9%, is down signifi- part of a large oak snapped out- Alabama and Georgia, according In Louisiana, Gov.