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With Oregon's shift to all-mail voting, precincts today may serve little purpose except to provide a glimpse at voting trends in such small pockets of the state. With four days to go until Election Day, The Bulletin examines four Central Oregon precincts. The vast rural area of eastern Deschutes County is first in the series.
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ABOVE:Jerrie Hanna and her sister, Dixie Hanna, pictured at right, own the Brothers Stage Stop. For both women, whom to pick for president — Barack Obama or Mitt Romney — is anespecially hard decision this year.
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LEFT:For Ken Burbank, a rancher who's lived in the area for 14 years, the choice isn't all that meaningful — he hasn't voted in decades. He's busy tending cattle. But you still see the candidates, "if you watch any TV at all."
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MEXICO CITY — This may not weigh heavily on the minds of voters in the Northwest, but if Oregon, Washington and Colorado legalize marijuana in next week's election, the effect on drug traffickers inMexico could be enormous. "It could be the biggest structural blow
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BROTHERSy the time her fourth child is born, Clancy Roth hopes the country is headed down a different path. The 38-year-old is expecting a baby just a couple of weeks after Tuesday's election. By then, she would like to see Mitt Romney as the presidentelect and Barack Obama as the lame duck. One day last month, she sat in her idling SUV on thecattle ranch she and her husband own on the eastern edge of Deschutes County and ticked off a list of reasons she's voting for the Republican challenger. "The economy, the out-of-control (government) spending,"she said."The private sector— we don't want it controlled by the government. Obamacare — I don't like the idea of government-controlled health care." Roth's views are typical of this conservative ranching community. "If we're talking to our neighbors, we talk politics,n Roth said. To others, Roth and her husband stick to milder subjects. "We don't want to argue with people." While othersin the area share Roth's concerns, not everyone shares her decisive support for Romney. In 2008, residents of this rural outpost cast 20 votes for John McCain, compared with two for Obama. This year, ballot returns from this voter precinct will look very different, largely because of a recent redrawing of the county's precinct map. See Precinct10/A4
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SISTERS — It took very little time for a near-unanimous Sisters City Council to pick asphalt, ratherthan concrete,as the road surface to use in a nine-month road repair project that will start on downtown's main drag this summer. "It only took us about two seconds," Sisters Mayor Lon Kellstrom said Thursday after the council voted 4-1 in favor of using asphalt to resurface a six-block portion of U.S. Highway 20 as part of the upcoming Cascade Avenue improvement project. Council President David Asson cast the lone vote opposing this plan. City officials and the Oregon Department of T r a nsportation spent nearly two years working on a plan to upgrade the portion of Cascade Avenue that r u ns through the center of downtown. Because the highway hasn't been paved since 1996, its very foundation is falling apart. ODOT originally proposed a concrete surface for the $6 million resurfacing project, which also includes plans to replace the downtown drainage system, curbs and gutters; widen its sidewalks; and install a series of new benches, light posts and trash cans that would give the area a new look. See Paving /A6
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Hostage taker in the spotlight — with insight By Thomas Erdbriiik New York Times News Service
TEHRAN — I n a w a y , n ot much has changed, said the former hostage taker, Abbas Abdi, having just watched a bootleg copy of "Argo," the movie based on the 1979 seizure of the American Embassy in Tehran. nI guess they saw us as bad guys then, and they see us as the bad guys now," Abdi said while offering a mix of pistachios, raisins and almonds to his guests. The embassy had been taken over because of fear of a U.S.-backed coup d'etat, he said, adding, "Our reasoning doesn't sell movie tickets, I assume." In 1979, Abdi could be seen night after night on the evening news programs in th e U n ited States as one of the Iranian student leaders who took 52 Americans captive. Iran wil l c o mmemorate the 33rd anniversaryof the embassy takeover today, two days earlier than the official date of Nov. 4, because of an Islamic holiday and an Iranian leap year. See Hostage/A4
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