A dispute over the May election for the Umpqua Public Transportation District board remains unresolved and will continue to be so through the board’s next scheduled meeting on July 21.

That agency head, Ben Edtl, is a Tualatin-based political consultant who is also the chief petitioner for a 2026 ballot initiative that would end Oregon’s pioneering vote-by-mail system. Edtl, 47, is a rising player in the MAGA wing of the Oregon Republican Party.

After technical and clerical errors in Oregon’s automatic voter registration system led to a number of people being registered to vote — despite not showing proof of U.S. citizenship

This story was produced by the Oregon Journalism Project, a nonprofit newsroom covering the state. A dispute over the May election for the Umpqua Public Transportation District board remains unresolved and will continue to be so through the board’s next scheduled meeting on July 21.