Oregon’s typically smooth vote by mail system saw its biggest mistake in history last month.

A defective barcode on the printed ballots meant tens of thousands of votes would need to be duplicated by hand, and the top official overseeing Clackamas County’s election knew about it at least a week earlier.

But for Sherry Hall, the woman at the center of the crisis, it wasn’t her first error or her first political storm. 

Reporter Shane Dixon Kavanaugh wrote an in-depth profile of Hall.

We talked about her background, the litany of major issues under her watch in Clackamas County for the past two decades, what her former staffers have to say about her and much more.

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