Posted on 05/31/2025 12:58:23 AM PDT by thecodont
Just two weeks into his new role as the top elections official in Shasta County, Clint Curtis abruptly fired the county’s most veteran elections official.
Curtis, an out-of-town lawyer who will now handle the elections in the northern California county, shocked the community when he was appointed the interim county registrar of voters in early May. He will temporarily serve in the role until the 2026 election.
Despite the transitional nature of his job, he’s still making big changes.
Barely a month into the job, Curtis handed Joanna Francescut, the former assistant county registrar of voters, a termination letter. Curtis and Francescut were among the five finalists for the role, from a pool of 20 applicants....
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“I expected this to happen,” Francescut said. She said that in recent years, she’s faced an uphill battle with the county’s supervisors, who gained notoriety for siding with far-right conspiracy theorists who falsely claimed the 2020 election was stolen. Francescut described her reaction to the firing as “calm anger and disappointment,” adding that she was concerned more dismissals are coming: “My initial reaction was, ‘How am I going to keep the staff protected?’”
The move has sparked agitation in a community worn out from years of election distrust. At the height of President Donald Trump’s first term in 2016, Shasta County became a battleground for MAGA supporters and a breeding ground for election fraud conspiracies. In 2023, the board attempted to eliminate Dominion Voting Systems and switch to hand-counting, a move later deemed unlawful by the state Legislature.
“When the system we use to count ballots abruptly changes, it causes chaos for years,” she said about the county’s brief hiatus from voter machines. “We’re not to the point where we fixed that hurdle.”
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“My initial reaction was, ‘How am I going to keep the staff protected?’”
The virtue signaling of leftist women never stops.
So Anabel Sosa of the SF Comical is an election fraud denier?
The Steal of 2020 was real.
Any time a news report contains the phrase, “… falsely claimed …” you know it’s an editorial.
“who gained notoriety for siding with far-right conspiracy theorists who falsely claimed the 2020 election was stolen”
Gaslighting.
Typical SF Gate swill.
“Any time a news report contains the phrase, “… falsely claimed …” you know it’s an editorial.”
An OpEd with a fake mustache
“When the system we use to count ballots abruptly changes (to hand counting), it causes chaos for years”
She does have a point, at least in California, since I doubt anyone knows how to count there anymore, given their ‘educational’ system.
Keeping this front and center because little Shasta County is fighting for election integrity in the deep pit of California election fraud. Lots of bumps in the road. I hope Trump sends someone to help.
FTA: “When the system we use to count ballots abruptly changes, it causes chaos for years,”
How so? You count the ballots by hand. They should match any electronic count. All done in a day. Any chaos is the result of cheating by the democrats.
Not weeks as happens in California.
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