{"id":9997,"date":"2023-01-25T18:40:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T18:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=9997"},"modified":"2023-01-25T18:40:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T18:40:11","slug":"breaking-board-of-supervisors-in-shasta-county-california-votes-to-terminate-its-contract-with-dominion-voting-systems-and-end-its-use-in-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=9997","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Board of Supervisors in Shasta County, California Votes to Terminate Its Contract with Dominion Voting Systems and End its Use in Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beautiful Shasta County<\/a> became the first county in California to eliminate the use of voting machines in its elections.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Board of Supervisors in Shasta County, California voted Tuesday night<\/a> to terminate the county\u2019s contract with Dominion Voting Systems.<\/p>\n

A split Shasta County Board of Supervisors voted to terminate the county\u2019s contract with Dominion Voting Systems after next month\u2019s special election in the city of Shasta Lake.<\/p>\n

Shasta will be the first of 40 California counties that used Dominion in the November 2022 election to drop the voting system, Shasta County Clerk\/Registrar of Voters Cathy Darling Allen told the Record Searchlight after Tuesday\u2019s meeting\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026Tuesday\u2019s Dominion vote came after a long public debate on the machines, including a tense exchange between Darling Allen and Supervisor Patrick Jones, who led the charge to end the county\u2019s contract with Dominion.<\/p>\n

Jones joined Supervisors Chris Kelstrom and Kevin Crye to terminate the agreement, bucking the advice of acting CEO Patrick Minturn, who said it would cost the county at least $1 million to bring in a new electronic voting system and train employees.<\/p>\n

The board\u2019s majority agreed with those who spoke in favor of ending the contract and argued you can\u2019t put a price tag on voter trust.<\/p>\n

Many individual citizens spoke at the meeting.<\/p>\n

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In voting 3-2, supervisors directed staff to cancel the agreement. The contract states that only the CEO \u201cand his\/her designee,\u201d or the county clerk and registrar of voters can terminate the agreement.<\/p>\n

Many who spoke in support of terminating the contract called for an audit of past elections, specifically pointing to last June\u2019s primary, when four far right, \u201cnon-establishment\u201d candidates that they supported all lost convincingly to incumbents.<\/p>\n

Jones, Crye and Kelstrom also suggested that the primary deserved a closer look. They didn\u2019t mention last November\u2019s election, which put Crye and Kelstrom on the board.<\/p>\n

As reported previously, other counties have eliminated the use of Dominion voting systems in their elections.\u00a0 Otero County New Mexico was one, for example.<\/p>\n

Senator Bill Eigle in Missouri is looking into the elimination of voting machines in that state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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