It's been a few years since I last reported anything to this email
group, but there is definitely something to report now.

The Democratic Party of Oregon has adopted IRV as a legislative agenda
item. A bill supporting local option for IRV has already been
pre-filed for the next legislative session (starts in January) by the
Secretary of State-Elect. With strong Democratic majorities in both
houses of the legislature, and the incoming Secretary of State
supporting it, it looks very likely that Oregon will pass a bill
directing the Secretary of State to draft rules which will allow any
local jurisdiction in Oregon to use IRV.

One of the obstacles we had when I was pushing IRV a few years ago was
that some counties still used punch card ballots which did not allow
for easy adoption of IRV. Now that all counties in Oregon use optical
scan ballots, it is possible for any of them to implement IRV.

Portland's chapter of Alliance for Democracy has been working hard to
make this happen.