Posted on 11/05/2023 4:13:03 PM PST by yesthatjallen
In many elections, the suspense comes from wondering which candidate is going to win.
In Shasta County, the question everyone is hanging on is: Will the local election next Tuesday bring unrest or even violence?
The county of about 200,000 people on the northern rim of the Central Valley made national news last spring when a far-right majority on the Board of Supervisors, swept up in unproven voter fraud claims, decided to dump Dominion voting machines and hand-count its ballots instead.
Gov. Newsom and other state officials then stepped in to stop the plan. On Oct. 4, Newsom signed a law limiting counties from hand-counting ballots. In response, Patrick Jones, chair of the Board of Supervisors, said he favored such a count anyway, declaring in the local newspaper: "I believe [the new law] does not affect Shasta County."
But the county's longtime registrar-recorder, Cathy Darling Allen — the only Democrat elected to countywide office — has begged to differ. Now, as a portion of the county's voters prepare to go to the polls to pick a school board member for the Gateway Unified School District and to decide whether to adopt a new fire protection district, Darling Allen said she plans to follow state law as she counts the votes. And that, she said, means using machines the county has bought to replace the Dominion ones.
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(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Read the whole article. It show how terrified Democrats are of returning to paper ballots.
We need to stop using Dominion voting machines. This should be a priority.
LATimes, all the lying, all the time.
In turmoil?!?! Because they can’t vote the way they did in Venezuela?
yes you should
no other country in the World uses voting machines, because they’re hackable (see 2020 election)
Canada, UK, Australia, etc. all use paper ballots - hand-counted, with observers from every party present - and all know the winner before the nite is out ... none of this multi-day nonsense
just sayin’
actually, all voters in counties where a voting machine of any flavor is being used need to boycott elections, until the french hand count system is instituted.
God forbid you count “proper” paper ballots which can be accounted for to determine an elected office? / meant it not/s
If the machines are still plugged in they’ll keep voting , LOL
I thought I was reading the Bee.
Watch the numbers we wildly different
I never-ever heard of voting machine concerns when I voted from those gray curtain closed lever style voting machines. Sometimes progress and technology is a bad thing.
Go back to mechanical lever machines. Instant results and unhackable.
That is something to look for.
But! The hanging chads!
The U.K. manages to hand count ballots in front of representatives of all parties and get accurate reports within hours of the polls closing. The state of California says that Shasta County is incapable of doing the same without the help of machines. Somehow what has worked for centuries is now beyond us.
Why would there be violence? Are they somehow implying that voting machines favor democrats?
The train has left the station.
Either we live with the results of early voting, mail in voting, absentee voting, and ballot harvesting or we put in place a government that forces a return to paper ballots only only on Election Day.
I have no idea how such a government could come to power, however.
You can make it a priority all you want - but an elected Legislature in California just passed, and an elected Governor signed, a law outlawing paper ballots.
Everybody here loved early voting, which is actually the worst offense against the old system. Then the Democrats fought back with ballot harvesting.
Neither side is willing to return to Election Day, and unless that changes nothing will improve.
I sit, corrected. Before my time as a voter.
It Hasta be Shasta?
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