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Posted on 08/25/2026 7:51:16 AM PDT by Red Badger
Shasta County Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis has released explosive security footage that he says shows longtime Elections Office employees deliberately bypassing badge readers to enter secure election rooms without leaving their names in the official access logs.
Now, instead of aggressively investigating the alleged security breaches, county bureaucrats have publicly rebuked Curtis, employee unions have issued votes of no confidence, and the embattled election official is facing demands that he resign.
According to reporting by Elisa Ballard of Shasta Unfiltered, the footage, presented by Curtis during an August 19 appearance on Catherine Engelbrecht’s True the Vote podcast, shows one employee sliding a card through a double-door entry to unlock a secure room while another stands guard.
Employees are reportedly required to enter using their individual security badges, creating a record containing the employee’s name and the time of entry.
Curtis said that after taking over as Registrar of Voters in 2025, he reviewed the electronic access logs and discovered hundreds of entries in which no employee name appeared.
He now believes the video explains the disturbing gaps.
Employees, Curtis alleges, were intentionally bypassing the badge readers so their identities would not appear in the official room-entry records.
Curtis described the conduct as a form of “breaking and entering” into a secure election area.
The footage alone does not establish why the employees entered the rooms or whether any ballots or election results were affected. However, Curtis argues that deliberately defeating an election office’s access-control system presents an obvious and serious chain-of-custody concern that demands an independent investigation.
And that is not all.
Curtis has also accused another employee of potentially issuing more ballots over the Elections Office counter than were documented in official reports.
According to Shasta Unfiltered, Curtis alleges the employee would report that only six ballots had been issued when as many as 12 had actually gone out.
Curtis further alleged that ballots and reports necessary for balancing the election were concealed. Shasta Unfiltered published a photograph purportedly showing ballots discovered underneath a cart used to transport unused ballots inside the ballot-balancing room.
He also claims that two workers intentionally shredded election-related documents after he specifically instructed employees not to destroy anything.
The interview begins around the 38-minute mark, while Curtis begins presenting the security footage at approximately 50:00.
WATCH:
Curtis Says Entrenched Staff Worked to Sabotage His Office Curtis was appointed Shasta County clerk and registrar of voters by the Board of Supervisors in April 2025, taking office the following month.
His appointment came after the board passed over former Assistant Registrar Joanna Francescut, a longtime Elections Office employee. Some employees reportedly threatened to resign if Francescut was not selected.
They did not resign.
Instead, according to Curtis, certain longtime employees remained inside the department and began working to undermine his authority and sabotage election operations.
Two personnel investigations—one conducted internally under Support Services Director Monica Fugitt and another by the outside Oppenheimer Investigations Group—subsequently substantiated allegations of abusive and retaliatory conduct made against Curtis.
Curtis has consistently denied the accusations, while some newer Elections Office employees have reportedly disputed claims made by the longtime staff.
On August 11, the Shasta County Board of Supervisors voted 3-1 to censure Curtis over the workplace-misconduct findings.
Supervisors Matt Plummer, Chris Kelstrom, and Allen Long voted for the censure. Supervisor Corkey Harmon voted against it. Supervisor Kevin Crye was absent for medical reasons but later told Shasta Unfiltered that he would have opposed the resolution.
The censure amounts to a formal public reprimand and does not remove Curtis from office. Local station KRCR reported that 23 of the 35 speakers who addressed supervisors before the vote defended Curtis.
Immediately after the censure, Curtis invited reporters to the Elections Office and showed them the security footage allegedly depicting the improper room entries.
Shasta County responded by attacking Curtis.
In an August 14 statement, county officials said they “disavow and denounce” what they called Curtis’s “ongoing and flagrant violations” of county personnel rules.
Officials accused Curtis of disregarding confidentiality procedures and the due-process rights of employees accused of misconduct.
In other words, the county’s immediate public focus was not on why employees appeared to be bypassing security controls in an Elections Office. It was on Curtis’s decision to expose them.
The pressure campaign intensified when unions representing Elections Office employees issued votes of no confidence and demanded Curtis’s resignation.
Teamsters Local 137, representing four mid-level managers and supervisors, said its members had “no confidence” in Curtis’s ability to lead the department.
Another 12 Elections Office employees are represented by LiUNA Local 792 UPEC, which also reportedly voted no confidence.
Union representatives cited the county’s personnel investigations and alleged mistreatment of employees. They also expressed concern that Curtis publicly identified employees before the completion of another investigation.
Shasta Scout reported that Teamsters representative Heather McFall called the censure a “reprimand not a remedy” and demanded Curtis immediately step down.
Curtis has refused. His term expires in January 2027 after he lost the June primary to Francescut.
Suspicious Ballots Secured as Curtis Calls for Federal Intervention Curtis has also raised questions about ballots from the June 2026 primary.
According to Shasta Unfiltered, citizens who participated in the machine and manual tallies reported encountering ballots that appeared unusual. Witnesses reportedly described ballots with different paper texture, thickness, weight, ink coloration, and smell.
Others claimed some ballot selections appeared to have been filled in with mechanical precision.
Those witness accounts have not yet resulted in a public finding that any ballots were counterfeit or that election results were changed.
Nevertheless, Shasta Unfiltered reported that FBI agents have interviewed approximately a dozen people concerning the allegations. Curtis has also contacted the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security.
Curtis secured ballots from the June 2026 primary and November 2024 general election inside a locked room, reportedly adding a padlock and destroying its key.
He is urging federal authorities to obtain a court order and secure the materials before September 11, when the 2024 ballots are reportedly scheduled for destruction under the records-retention timetable.
Election-integrity attorney David Clements weighed in on X, calling for prayers and immediate federal intervention.
“Pray for Clint Curtis in Shasta County, California. He is one of the few honest election supervisors in the county. It appears his hand count team found fake and fraudulent ballots submitted in the last election.
“There still appears to be a level of infiltration from election staff holdovers, bypassing security protocols, in an attempt to be around the ballots and machines when no else is present.
“He has notified and cooperated with the FBI, but expressed a need for the DOJ/FBI to secure what amounts to a crime scene before the risk of foul play continues.”
The Gateway Pundit has followed Shasta County’s election-integrity battles for years.
In January 2023, The Gateway Pundit reported that the Shasta County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 to terminate its contract with Dominion Voting Systems.
Two months later, the board voted to move toward hand-counted paper ballots. Curtis traveled from Florida to address supervisors during that debate.
The Gateway Pundit also previously covered Curtis’s testimony before the Arizona Senate Elections Committee concerning vulnerabilities in electronic voting systems.
Curtis testified before members of Congress in 2004 that he had been asked to develop a prototype program capable of secretly altering election results. He said such manipulation could be detected only by inspecting the program’s source code or comparing electronic totals against voter-verified paper records.
Curtis, a former computer programmer who later became an attorney, has since positioned himself as an election-integrity whistleblower.
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The Nick Shirley Law
The fraud is perfectly fine.
Exposing the fraud, however, can get you into serious trouble.
If we made conspiracy to commit voter fraud a capital crime and prosecuted it assiduously, we’d have a lot less conspiracy to commit voter fraud.
Their would be a lot less recidivism that’s for sure.............😏
The fraud is institutionalized...
Democrat cheaters are NOTHING compared to Commie Cheaters. At least democrats are capable of a small amount of shame - Commies are NOT... they'll cheat and laugh.
Democrat cheaters are NOTHING compared to Commie Cheaters. At least democrats are capable of a small amount of shame - Commies are NOT... they'll cheat and laugh.
This shows just how deep is the election fraud bureaucracy, even in Shasta County, California, long a conservative stronghold.
The reason is simple: Most Democrats know they are worthless in a real job and will therefore cling to a government job with every ounce of strength. They want power, prestige, and a fat paycheck with no accountability. It’s all wrapped in an emotional superiority that they care so much for the supposedly downtrodden.
“Deal with it.”
As someone who has had to deal with security systems for decades, there is only ONE reason to bypass one.
Shades of Tina Peters all over again.
“The Nick Shirley Law
The fraud is perfectly fine.
Exposing the fraud, however, can get you into serious trouble.”
That’s now the California Mantra. We love Fraud, but can’t stand people or groups that bring attention to it.
It’s the county elections office where votes are counted that almost all fraud occurs.
Here in Florida, the votes are counted at the precincts and then reported to the county Supervisor of Elections then reported the totals to Tallahassee..........
Here in Florida, the votes are counted at the precincts and then reported to the county Supervisor of Elections then reported the totals to Tallahassee..........
[California] a Godless shameless immoral state if there ever was one?.
I wouldn’t mind seeing a few perp walks.
Arrest #0
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