California's 'MAGA-led' county bans Dominion voting machines in heated meeting

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle/By Eric Ting

California's Shasta County — where hard-line conservatives hold a 4-1 majority on the county board of supervisors following the results of the November 2022 elections — terminated its contract with Dominion Voting Systems Tuesday evening. The justification? Widely debunked claims of mass voter fraud.

The county, described by the New York Times as "MAGA-led" following the recall of longtime Supervisor Leonard Moty in February 2022, is California's ground zero for "Stop the Steal" madness. Since November 2020, county elections chief Cathy Darling Allen has had to deal with everything from "aggressive" individuals impersonating elections officials to frivolous demands that the office defy state law and preserve records it is required to destroy.

Allen was thrown another curveball last week: Board President Patrick Jones, a key figure in the Moty recall who previously boasted to SFGATE that his dietary habits would protect him against COVID-19, added an agenda item to Tuesday night's meeting calling for a discussion of the Dominion contract. The company has been the subject of many bogus conspiracy theories and has since filed high-profile defamation lawsuits against Fox News, Newsmax and OAN.

"We've been having this conversation for a while, so I'm not sitting here shocked and appalled," Allen told SFGATE Wednesday morning. "Well, I'm appalled. But shocked? No."

Read more: https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/shasta-county-dominion-voting-machines-17741711.php

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The clowns run the show in Shasta County.

[thucythucy]

1. I expect the attorneys for Dominion

will add this data point to the evidence they will present during the damages portion of their defamation trial against Fox, Giuliani, et al.

[Gore1FL]

2. I was just about to post this argument.

The right self-owns.

[dem4decades]

3. Add another billion to the damages please.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

7. Bingo.

[orangecrush]

9. +1

[Rhiannon12866]

15. +2

[orleans]

4. will they be voting using sidewalk chalk? nt

[TheRealNorth]

5. Probably Diebold machines without a paper trail...

Because we can't prove Republicans stole an election if there isn't a paper trail.

[NullTuples]

6. Shasta county is far more than just "MAGA-led"...

It's controlled by two primary social & political forces:
Redding Bethel Church and regional militia-mob leader Carlos Zapata.
Both have overwhelming amounts of local support.
They're MAGA led. but they go way past it, too.

[Obvious85]

8. This gives Dominion PROVABLE damages and is a slam dunk in their lawsuit against Fox & Pillow Boy

HA HA!

[SunSeeker]

10. Those loons want to form their own 51st state of "Jefferson."

Shasta County is lovely, mountainous and rural. And, mostly white, racist, uneducated, drug addled, poor, bitter and right wing. It's basically West Virginia within the Golden State.

[Initech]

13. And they'll probably still get 2 democratic senators!

Unfortunately can't say the same for the representatives.

[pfitz59]

16. They're tame next to the nuts next door in Trinity County.

I grew up there and escaped.

[NBachers]

11. Dominion? If you're listening, I hope you can find the Shasta County Board of Supervisors. I think

you will probably be rewarded mightily by the Court System.

[Initech]

12. Stupid election denying conspiracy theory dumbasses!

[Grins]

14. Ok. All county votes are hereby nullified.

And if you want new voting machines - buy them yourself.
Want hand counts? You pay for that, too.