Election day in Oregon is next week. Oregonians must submit their ballots by Tuesday, May 19th.

Several measures and candidates are running in local and statewide elections, but as reported in Bolts, not a single district attorney race is being contested.

Oregonians will only have one option in determining who will play a critical role in how criminal justice is handled in the state.

Daniel Nichanian is the founder and editor-in-chief of Bolts.

He joins us to share more on why many incumbents around the state aren’t being challenged and what we lose as voters when races go uncontested.

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News Source : https://www.opb.org/article/2026/05/13/da-races-in-oregon-go-uncontested-for-the-first-time-in-decades/