Five Oregon counties will ask voters during the next election whether they want to leave the state and join Idaho. “Oregon is a powder keg because counties that belong in a red state like Idaho are ruled by Portlanders,” said Mike McCarter, president of Move Oregon’s Border, in a statement to news outlets. Voters in Baker, Grant, Lake, Malheur, and Sherman counties in Oregon will decide in May if they want to move forward with moving the state’s border, he said. “It is not a vote to secede from Oregon because a county can’t do that,” McCarter told KTVB. “It’s a measure that says, ‘County commissioners, your citizens of your county want to see you work towards this process.” McCarter said residents of those counties are unhappy with Gov. Kate Brown’s COVID-19 restrictions, Antifa-related violence in Portland, and the state’s legislative bias against rural Oregon counties while prioritizing Portland. “This state …