Technology has also grown leaps and bounds since 1981.
Oregon may have taken a long time as it was a leader. Charting the unknown.
States enabling more mail in voting now have well established examples to follow. Its hardly "drastically" changing anything.
My day job is building healthcare interfaces. I've done more than my share of immunization registry interfaces, where we connect a clinic up to the state registry.
If I've learned anything working with state governments, it's that they all think they know better than the other states. They'll all set off on their own paths, rather than duplicating the successes from other states.
Only after a few annoying failures will they come to something akin to parity (in the case of immunization registries, it's the CDC's specification guidelines, which were there all along).
Oregon may have taken a long time as it was a leader. Charting the unknown. States enabling more mail in voting now have well established examples to follow. Its hardly "drastically" changing anything.