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Shasta County voters appear to have ousted a controversial elections chief who promotes conspiracy theories about voter fraud, even as they approved a ballot measure that would require hand-counting ballots and voter ID, conflicting with California election law.<\/p>\n

Read more Five things to know about California\u2019s election, from Congress to the governor\u2019s race<\/a><\/p>\n

If the results hold, Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis, who has advocated for the initiative, will remain in office until the end of the year. On Wednesday, former elections office worker Joanna Francescut was leading Curtis with about 56% of the vote. She\u2019s on track to win the race outright because they were the only candidates on the primary election ballot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His loss would set the stage for a tense November election. The conspiracy-minded elections chief will remain in charge of the office after a bitter defeat \u2014 with nothing to lose in a county that is already a national hotspot for election deniers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s election also was marked by lengthy vote-reporting delays, and a local journalist raised concerns about the threat of future violence at elections offices after the editor of the nonprofit Shasta Scout newspaper reported that she saw an election worker activate what appeared to be a stun gun.<\/p>\n

The county\u2019s Measure B, requiring hand-counting of ballots, in-person voting and voters to show ID, was leading by 2,464 votes. An activist group called Shasta Election Reform is behind the initiative.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Curtis, a self-proclaimed \u201celections integrity advocate,\u201d lived in Florida and had no experience administering elections before the county board of supervisors appointed him in 2025 over Francescut, who also sought the job.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Curtis has accused his predecessors of stuffing ballots to sabotage Republicans, an allegation they say is ridiculous, considering the county reliably votes Republican. Donald Trump won two-thirds of the vote in Shasta County in 2024.<\/p>\n

Curtis fired Francescut soon after taking over the elections office. She sued recently alleging wrongful termination.<\/p>\n

Curtis associated with conspiracy theorists<\/h2>\n

Two county-instigated investigations found troubling examples of Curtis acting inappropriately on the clock.<\/p>\n

The investigations found that he routinely mistreats his employees, casually threatens physical violence and urges his workers to perform illegal acts, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The investigations found Curtis also violated election law by campaigning for himself while on county business.<\/p>\n

Curtis has aligned himself with 2020 election deniers, publicly expressed skepticism about voting machines and significantly reduced the number of ballot drop boxes in the county.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Curtis also wouldn\u2019t tell local journalists whether he\u2019d cooperate with Trump\u2019s federal law enforcement agencies following a new California law prohibiting law enforcement officers from seizing ballots.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a concern after Riverside County Sheriff and Republican candidate for governor Chad Bianco took the unprecedented step of seizing ballots in that county this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Curtis served as an adviser to the activist group that made dubious claims of voting irregularities in Riverside County, and he broke the news at a Shasta County Board of Supervisors meeting that Bianco planned to seize the ballots. As CalMatters reported, Bianco\u2019s investigators relied entirely on the group\u2019s questionable claims when they asked a judge to approve their seizure.<\/p>\n

Curtis\u2019 spokesperson, Brent Turner, said that should Francescut ultimately get more votes than him, voters don\u2019t need to worry about Curtis trying to stay in power like Trump did in 2020 after Trump lost that election.<\/p>\n

\u201cClint is a law-and-order investigator of corrupted systems,\u201d Turner said. \u201cThat\u2019s more, I think, a Trumpian kind of a play that you\u2019re alluding to, and I have seen no sign of anything like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Francescut\u2019s campaign spokesperson didn\u2019t return an interview request sent through the campaign\u2019s social media account.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Measure B\u2019s apparent passage sets the stage for a conflict in state courts that Shasta County is likely to lose.\u00a0Courts found that a similar measure Huntington Beach passed in 2024 requiring voters to show ID violated state law.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Turner declined to address the legal uncertainties and referred inquiries to the California Attorney General\u2019s Office. The agency didn\u2019t immediately answer CalMatters\u2019 questions.<\/p>\n

Did an election worker ignite a stun gun?<\/h2>\n

The AG\u2019s office also didn\u2019t immediately respond to CalMatters\u2019 questions about whether it was investigating one of Curtis\u2019 employees for allegedly touching off a stun gun with a journalist watching.<\/p>\n

Annelise Pierce, the Shasta Scout editor, said she was standing outside the elections office watching workers Curtis hired as temporary employees.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read more What about California\u2019s other statewide races? Here\u2019s a look at the offices on the ballot today<\/a><\/p>\n

As they waited by the street for a car to drop off ballots from an outlying precinct, one of the men pulled out a stun gun and set it off, making a loud zapping sound, Pierce said. Turner disputes that it was a stun gun.<\/p>\n

The worker appeared to be only showing the weapon to the other men and didn\u2019t try to hurt anyone, but it alarmed Pierce. She alerted those inside, including poll observers from the attorney general\u2019s office who were monitoring the election, she said.<\/p>\n

Curtis came out and took the stun gun from the man, she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pierce said Turner downplayed the incident. She said that troubled her, given the tensions over voting in the county and the threat of violence at polling places.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the thing most upsetting was no one took it seriously when this seemed like a safety issue,\u201d she told CalMatters.<\/p>\n

Turner said the device was just a flashlight that made a buzzing noise.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt unfortunately makes a noise that is not an appropriate noise, and that was, you know, addressed, but it was not a Taser,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Pierce said she believes the device was a flashlight-stun gun device, but she didn\u2019t get a photo of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s illegal for a member of the public to carry a firearm in a polling place in California, brandish a weapon or to intimidate polling workers or voters, but the law doesn\u2019t appear to explicitly address possession of non-lethal weapons such as stun guns.<\/p>\n

California Assembly Elections Committee Chairperson Gail Pellerin said the incident may lead to a new law to explicitly ban such weapons in elections offices.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m certain that it\u2019s something we\u2019d be looking at to remedy in another election cycle, you know, because we just keep having to pass laws dealing with creative new unacceptable behaviors (during elections),\u201d said Pellerin, a Democrat and former elections chief in Santa Cruz County.<\/p>\n

Shasta County vote tallies delayed<\/h2>\n

When Curtis took the job, he promised more efficient vote counting, but election night returns were much slower than in most other California counties.\u00a0<\/p>\n

By midnight, several other counties, including neighboring Siskiyou and Lassen, had posted almost all of their preliminary precinct counts online, while Shasta County\u2019s website showed less than 2% reported.<\/p>\n

Turner said the delay was due to the power in the dilapidated Shasta County elections building going out, delaying the process by about two hours, which also happened last year.<\/p>\n

As he discussed the delays, Turner, a Democrat who advocates for open-source voting systems, sounded a lot like other California elections officials who urge patience with the state\u2019s notoriously slow elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The time it takes to process mail-in ballots causes results to shift, sometimes dramatically, from early returns that typically favor Republicans, a phenomenon that has given rise to many of the conspiracy theories activists use to cast doubt on election results.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe procedures that we\u2019re implementing and have implemented, results in good precision (with vote counts), but there can be timing elements involved,\u201d Turner said. \u201cI appreciate everybody wants the fastest count possible, but \u2026 we really should desire accuracy and precision in the processing of the ballot over the desire to have a quick answer on election night.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more Who will lead California schools? Voters choose next state superintendent<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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