This editorial, or one like it, should be sent to the voters in the other 47 states without vote by mail. Barring that, a half hour PBS special extolling Oregon's style of democracy would be very useful.
Of course, vote by mail would change the electoral landscape, as democracy and its one person one vote, gerrymandering aside, would construct a new United States. Even I, a proponent of strict one person one vote, don't know what would happen. 
More Trumps? 
Go Bernie.
Hugh Massengill, Eugene