I couldn’t find your quote at the link. Can you provide the source please ?
I did, however find this at
https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB969/id/2812723
An act to add Section 19207.5 to the Elections Code, relating to elections. elections,
and declaring the urgency thereof,
to take effect
immediately.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST
AB 969, as amended, Pellerin. Elections: voting systems.
Existing law authorizes the governing board of a local jurisdiction to adopt a voting system for use in an election if the system has been certified or conditionally approved by the Secretary of State.
This bill would prohibit a county board of supervisors from terminating an existing voting system contract without a transition plan and a replacement contract in place.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Digest Key
Vote: majority2/3 Appropriation: no Fiscal Committee: no Local Program: no
Bill Text
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 19207.5 is added to the Elections Code, to read:
19207.5. A county board of supervisors shall not terminate an existing voting system contract without a transition plan and a replacement contract in place.
SEC. 2. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
In order to ensure that county elections officials know what voting system they will be using,
particularly with the upcoming 2024 March Presidential Primary,
it is necessary for this act to take effect
immediately.
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Ex post facto ?
They mean to thwart the will of the people
and reverse the action taken
and return shasta County to the machines.
They are TERRIFIED of even 1 election cycle hand counted.
They know they will be flushed out of office.
They mean to thwart the will of the people
and reverse the action taken
and return shasta County to the machines.
They are TERRIFIED of even 1 election cycle without machines.
They know they will be flushed out of office.
In order to ensure that county elections officials know what voting system they will be using,
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This is weasel word smithing at its finest imho.
” voting system “
They know, paper ballots and hand counts.
They are trying to define “ voting system” as some form of machine only.
Weasels.
My reading of this is as currently standing; the Shasta County decision is a past action, therefore would not apply (per my understanding of the text of this bill).