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I think the participants will try to remain impartial and honor the process, but they are chosen to represent average Oregonians with all their demographic/ethnic/political biases.  It's a representation of an election, not really a court of law.  In a court of law, the two sets of lawyers try to throw out all the jurors who know anything about the case or have a leaning one way or the other.  That's not what elections are like. 

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