Douglas County Commissoner Race, Round 2

     TWO New Commissioners To Take Office January, 2015

     Now that Oregon's longest-serving county commissioner has announced that he'll retire in the middle of his term, effective July 31st, there will be another election for Douglas County Commissioner this November. Doug Robertson is stepping down after serving 33 years as a Douglas County Commissioner.
     No, I don't expect to file again for the office, even if people approach me again and offer me the money to file for the office. My stage four cancer, barring a miracle, will keep me out of commission for awhile. Two candidates...2008 candidate Rich Raynor, and 2014 candidate Dale Rogers...have already announced they will run to serve the remainder of Robertson's term. Other potential candidates have two months to file for the job; the winner takes office in January.
     I would like to see all of the candidates who ran in May, 2014, file to run for the new position: Rogers, Monte Smith, Mick Fummerton, Mark Vincent, and Alan Nielsen. It would be great to see a race where everyone basically enters the race on a level playing field, unlike the May, 2014, election where one candidate had already amassed more than $100,000 in special interest PAC money before the election was even underway.

Can A Candidate Win With Less Than 50 Percent Of The Vote?

     One interesting question that I would like to see answered: Will the one candidate who receives the most votes in November, 2014, automatically win the election, even if they don't receive a majority (50+%) of the votes?
      The May, 2014, election would have sent the top two vote-recipients to advance to the November, 2014, election, if the one candidate had not received more than 50 percent of the votes.
      So what happens when the November election is the FIRST election for a particular race? Is there no run-off election between the top two vote-recipients?