Posted on 05/19/2023 8:06:54 PM PDT by thecodont
Shasta County District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye, an ally of MyPillow CEO and 2020 presidential election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell, is facing a citizen-led recall effort because of his role in the county’s decision to get rid of Dominion voting machines in favor of an expensive plan to hand-count ballots. On Wednesday, Crye joined Lindell’s TV show to preview his anti-recall messaging.
“We want to keep Gavin Newsom out of Shasta County politics,” Crye said after directing viewers to a campaign site that prominently features the governor’s name in multiple places. The reason Crye is invoking Newsom is simple: Thanks to a 2022 change to state recall law, Newsom would appoint Crye’s replacement if he is recalled, as recalls for local offices are now simple “yes” or “no” votes with no replacement candidate question. Vacancies will be filled in accordance to local laws, and in Shasta County’s case, that means the governor would appoint someone. In 2021, 69.6% of deep-red Shasta County voted to recall Newsom.
Jeff Gorder, a spokesperson for the recall campaign, told SFGATE his group is seeking to time the recall election in such a way that would not require Newsom to make an appointment. Signature gathering began on Tuesday. If the group is able to collect 4,151 valid signatures by the end of June, the recall election will be held in November. If Crye is recalled, Gorder would prefer that Newsom keep that seat vacant, as the district will vote on Crye’s replacement in the March 2024 primary, and Gorder believes the seat can be unoccupied for a handful of months.
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Eric Ting getting all tingly at maybe getting rid of one of them ebil Whiteys up in Ent Land
Bring back the Exclusion act
Naw. They’re all a-skeert of them little paper ballots.
One guess as to who’s bankrolling the recall effort.
” in favor of an expensive plan to hand-count ballots.”
Such a farce. No way paper ballots and hand count is more expensive than machines, software and service contracts.
The registor of voters in Shasta County is the one whining about the hand count of paper ballots
Communists get real fiscally responsible when it can be used as a political club. Bet it is cheaper than those machines.
Actually, it is. You have to pay people to count them (there’s never enough volunteers any more) so that’s an ongoing expense that’s usually more than the service contracts after the initial purchase.
That said, this guy would have been better off if he’d proposed replacing the Dominion machines with the combined paper Scantron/terminal/tabulator system used in many Texas counties. Dominion is banned here and nobody much complained about it because what we have is pretty foolproof yet efficient and low cost.
It isn’t in the long term. If I recall the local counties’ numbers, machine tabulation is less than half the cost per election as vote counters are usually not volunteers.
“...citizen-led recall effort...”
Citizen-led? Yeah right, This is what you call astroturfing. Someone (George Soros) gives millions under the table to go after anyone who wants election integrity and then they call it citizen-led. Riiiiight!
......county’s decision to get rid of Dominion voting machines in favor of an expensive plan to hand-count ballots....
The only thing more expensive than an honest hand count is rigging the count by machine.
In theory it is cheaper but we knows what happens when the gummit gets involved.
I wasn’t speculating, I was just going off actual reported costs in my nearby counties. When they’ve had to go manual for whatever reason (tech malfunction, electrical failure, whatever) the costs actually go up considerably. But, again, we didn’t buy Dominion units and there is a paper trail for all votes that the voter can inspect before handing it to the tabulator machine.
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