California's 'MAGA-led' county bans Dominion voting machines in heated meeting
Source: San Francisco Chronicle/By Eric Ting
California's Shasta County where hard-line conservatives hold a 4-1 majority on the county board of supervisors following the results of the November 2022 elections terminated its contract with Dominion Voting Systems Tuesday evening. The justification? Widely debunked claims of mass voter fraud.
The county, described by the New York Times as "MAGA-led" following the recall of longtime Supervisor Leonard Moty in February 2022, is California's ground zero for "Stop the Steal" madness. Since November 2020, county elections chief Cathy Darling Allen has had to deal with everything from "aggressive" individuals impersonating elections officials to frivolous demands that the office defy state law and preserve records it is required to destroy.
Allen was thrown another curveball last week: Board President Patrick Jones, a key figure in the Moty recall who previously boasted to SFGATE that his dietary habits would protect him against COVID-19, added an agenda item to Tuesday night's meeting calling for a discussion of the Dominion contract. The company has been the subject of many bogus conspiracy theories and has since filed high-profile defamation lawsuits against Fox News, Newsmax and OAN.
"We've been having this conversation for a while, so I'm not sitting here shocked and appalled," Allen told SFGATE Wednesday morning. "Well, I'm appalled. But shocked? No."
Read more: https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/shasta-county-dominion-voting-machines-17741711.php
The clowns run the show in Shasta County.
thucythucy
(8,045 posts)will add this data point to the evidence they will present during the damages portion of their defamation trial against Fox, Giuliani, et al.
Gore1FL
(21,127 posts)The right self-owns.
dem4decades
(11,282 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,325 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,214 posts)orleans
(34,049 posts)TheRealNorth
(9,478 posts)Because we can't prove Republicans stole an election if there isn't a paper trail.
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)It's controlled by two primary social & political forces:
Redding Bethel Church and regional militia-mob leader Carlos Zapata.
Both have overwhelming amounts of local support.
They're MAGA led. but they go way past it, too.
Obvious85
(259 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Shasta County is lovely, mountainous and rural. And, mostly white, racist, uneducated, drug addled, poor, bitter and right wing. It's basically West Virginia within the Golden State.
Initech
(100,063 posts)Unfortunately can't say the same for the representatives.
pfitz59
(10,358 posts)I grew up there and escaped.
NBachers
(17,107 posts)you will probably be rewarded mightily by the Court System.
Initech
(100,063 posts)Grins
(7,212 posts)And if you want new voting machines - buy them yourself.
Want hand counts? You pay for that, too.