Shasta County Elections Department administrators and staff are scrambling to pack up and return leased Dominion Voting Systems Inc. machines, precinct voting kiosks, printers, sorters, optical readers, computers, memory cards and other assorted paraphernalia following the March 28 decision — on a 3-2 vote by county supervisors — to cut ties with the company and return to hand counting all ballots.
Dist. 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye, Dist. 5 Supervisor Chris Kelstrom and Dist. 4 Supervisor/Chair Patrick Jones all voted to cancel the Domingo voting systems.
Dist. 3 Supervisor Mary Rickert and Dist. 2 Supervisor Tim Garman voted to rescind Crye, Kelstrom and Jones’ previous vote that rejected the Dominion machines. Twice Supervisor Rickert made substitute motions to reinstate the Dominion voting machines, but she was overruled by the Jones, Kelstrom and Crye board majority.
What might the process look like? One only has to look to neighboring state Nevada where Nye County officials chose to do a hand count of their November 2022 midterm election ballots as a double-check on their voting machine tally.
Best known as the home of the nation’s former nuclear weapons test site, Nye County is an old silver mining region some 60 miles west of Las Vegas. It is home to about 50,000 residents, including 33,000 registered voters.
In an article written by Jessica Hill published by the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Nov. 10, 2022, Hill describes what she observed.
“Sitting at...
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