Shasta’s election official was late with his first ballot report. His right-hand man is lashing out at staff.
The report was turned in on Friday, one day late. Numbers submitted to the state show that less than half of Shasta’s ballots have been counted.
Press releases still showing on the county election site document the process by which former election officials used to notify the public about unprocessed ballot numbers in the wake of each election.
Unprocessed ballot counts are due to the state two days after each election. They’re often also provided to the public in the form of press releases, to help the community gauge how current vote totals could still change as ballot processing continues.
Earlier this week, Shasta County’s newest election official, Clint Curtis, failed to submit those initial numbers to the state by the two-day deadline, the Sacramento Bee reported yesterday. Curtis confirmed that information today, saying he had assigned the task of reporting unprocessed ballots to a staffer “but they could not figure out how to do it.” He said he collected the information himself Friday afternoon — three days post-election — and turned it in.
His right-hand man, Assistant Registrar Brent Turner — who, like Curtis, has never before run an election — shared a darker perspective with Shasta Scout today, saying that former election official Joanna Francescut is “still running the office” and alleging that she and former Registrar of Voters (ROV) Cathy Darling Allen “apparently advise our staff to slow walk certain procedures and that is then leaked to the press in real time.”
Asked what evidence he had to support that claim, Turner said merely, “the story [about the missing ballot report] came out too fast.” Curtis did not respond to a request for comment on Turner’s allegations against former officials and current election staffers.
Darling Allen, who served as Shasta’s elected Registrar of Voters for more than four full terms before stepping down mid-term in 2024 due to health issues, said she rejects Turner’s accusation completely, calling it “categorically untrue.”
“I don’t believe any staff in the office that I hired would ever slow-walk anything,” Darling Allen said. “That would be outside of their integrity. Serious leadership involves taking responsibility for doing the job one is hired to do.”
Francescut, who is running against Curtis for the ROV role in 2026, also denied Turner’s allegation, saying “I have no desire to see our local elections fail and would never request staff to compromise their own or my own values to slow-walk the process.” She added that if she was actually running the election office from the outside she would have completed the unprocessed ballot report in a timely manner.
“The County Clerk and Assistant County Clerk are not figurehead roles and require dedicated individuals that work hard along with the staff and also have knowledge and understanding of all the processes within the office,” Francescut noted, speaking from her experience as an Assistant ROV in Shasta for more than six years.“Their inability to provide an estimated number of ballots left to count while staff are working hard to process and count ballots is a reflection of their own knowledge,” she added, referring to Curtis and Turner.
As of Friday at 4:53 pm, the Secretary of State site shows Shasta reporting that an estimated 35,329 ballots were already processed while another 40,898 ballots remain. If correct, those numbers would mean that less than half of the county’s approximately 76,000 ballots cast in the special election have been counted so far. The county’s website shows a somewhat higher number of processed ballots — 39,887.
In a press release issued earlier on Friday, Curtis didn’t mention that so many ballots remain to be counted writing instead that “all the ballots were counted on Tuesday except for the last-minute mail-ins and the Provisionals.” The press release referred to the election in the past tense, lauding Curtis’ accomplishments and stating that “all sides of the political spectrum can now have full confidence in the elections because they do not need to have blind trust in anyone.”
Turner expressed similar sentiments in texts to Shasta Scout today, calling Tuesday’s election the “Market Street Miracle,” a nod to the location of the county’s ballot processing location. “Election reform activists from all over the county have congratulated us,” Turner wrote, saying he and Curtis had delivered “a clean fast special election.”
He said Curtis’ failure to submit the unprocessed ballot report to the state on Nov. 6 — a violation of California election code 15305 — was a “simple email delay.”
“This is just another example of the Press continuing to attempt to denigrate the current elections department by finding fault rather than recognizing the positives which are monumental,” Turner said, referring to the behavior of the media as “shameful.”
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Mr. 2 hours, Good thing you don’t live in LA . (LA) County has tallied significantly more votes than Shasta County in the November 4, 2025, Statewide Special Election.Los Angeles County has reported 2,584,888 total votes as of the latest update on November 10, 2025.
LA also has less unprocessed ballots than Shasta. Shasta also has more unprocessed ballots than processed.
Correction, Curtis reported an update Wednesday night. There are now more processed ballots than unprocessed. Shasta still has more unprocessed ballots than LA.
I bitterly regret that my resignation as the ROV due to poor health created the opportunity for Clint’s vaudevillian snake oil act. With regard to him I have only one question: Hey Clint, where’s that federal indictment? Still zero contact from any agency of the federal government.
The real “medicine” for Shasta County elections will be Joanna in June. Vote wisely, and help restore the health of our community.
Thank for your service as the ROV ! Its not an easy job . It s showing from how bad these individuals are failing . I wonder if the state can step in before the mid-terms ? If they dont it will most certainly be a disaster.
Tom, thank you for coming in with a fresh set of honest eyes.
Appreciate your honesty and desire to follow the law.
Unlike the current ROV…
Thank you, sir. You are a man of honour. God grant you a speedy recovery!
There was no reason to, “slow walk” anything. There was every reason in the world however to, “slow think” this process. Curtis and especially Turner are incompetents. I was called by Turner at 8:00 pm Monday night to show up at 1:00pm on Tuesday. I showed up and he no where to be found. When he finally breeched, I was asked to come back between 4:00 and 5:00pm. Which is it, 4 or 5? No one knew.
I showed up but nothing happened until well after 8:00pm. I was an adjudicator for the Democratic Party. 10 votes had already been adjudicated with me or my companion.
I was given a lanyard identifying me as an observer and later given an “adjudicator’s sticker. Ha ha! What for? It meant nothing! A GOP adjudicator representative already had free access to all of the areas I was forbidden to go and she had NO required ID. “Everyone knows her” screamed Turner. “She is a known and respected member of the community” added PHJ, one of the least respected members of this community.
This office was a total embarrassment. The Alt Right had free rein over every table. I am sorry for the staff but ashamed of our County election’s office..
Someone please spare Shasta County from its unending plague of entitled mediocre (being extremely generous here) white men. We have enough of them here already, we don’t need to be importing them from Florida and San Francisco.
Because RV took a well deserved month off, all of the locusts from the ANC echo chamber have landed at the Scout. However, it’s a boon to SS and Northern California and overdue. Refreshing to have a news outlet that doesn’t prioritize lame holiday recipes over libertarian debate.
This article begs the question – what is more relevant and important- the fact Shasta County just set the standard for California regarding safe and secure transparent elections .. or .. the fact that the requested post election .“snapshot “ paperwork was slightly delayed ?
The attempt to revise history regarding the recent Shasta County election falls apart upon inspection. The election was conducted with innovative security upgrades that performed perfectly. The distraction of the follow up paperwork cannot be allowed to revise the reality
The violences that has plagued Shasta County elections was masterfully eliminated via what many have mused as a “successful social experiment”. By allowing the most distrustful to participate as workers the county showed the state and country how to structure an election within a previously violent environment
Hopefully the citizens will be informed about the gravity and reality of this accomplishment and take pride in the newfound leadership position Shasta now enjoys. Clint Curtis ‘ procedures create a necessary safeguard against inside and outside manipulation that did not exist previously.
Mr Turner, you aren’t fooling anyone.
Brent, many questions beg to be answered. Here are just a few. I start by asking when Clint will comply with a CPRA request that is now legally beyond the statute’s reply time limits. As a so-called progressive Democrat interested in law, how is it that you work for and defend a boss who is collaborating with Trump’s DOJ to try to indict former election officials Tom Toller and Joanna Francescut? Do you take pride in that? As a self-described progressive Democrat with an interest in law, do you think the intense scrutiny of law enforcement, the State of California, and the conversations local citizens had with the state—who were there legally (unlike the militia stunt in the past)—may have tainted your “social experiment” of handing control of Shasta County elections to election deniers and liars? Some, like your boss, who votes in New California elections, proclaim that California is not legally or constitutionally valid; others are linked to a white nationalist neoconfederate militia. Do you think Betty Ting Yee would be alarmed? Do you understand that Curtis might be helping one of your colleagues to place a measure on the ballot so illegal that it could deeply burden Shasta County with debt to defend—if the statute isn’t thrown out on the first day? As someone interested in law, do you realize your boss tried to deny the press their constitutional rights and was reprimanded for it? When you said Joanna Francescut is “running the Shasta County Elections Department,” did you remember to acknowledge any success Francescut might have had in this election? As a county employee, did you include all details about your “Law Degree” on your application? (Hint: CPRA is filed.) Thanks.
Clint has never provided proof that any election was not accurate. His cameras and monitors proved nothing but I’m not against either. Most of the threats have come from the election denialists. With the denialists in charge, no threats. Nobody sneaking into the back door this time. Masterful!
It’s hard to find the new found leadership.
Just because you say “it’s a fact” does NOT, in fact, make it a fact. Shasta’s handling of this election is an outlier in California, not a gold standard. You are delusional if you truly believe that you are setting anything close to a successful standard, an innovation, or a remote accomplishment. We see through your word salad. You, sir, are a moron. Try again.
I beg to differ, Mr. Turner. This article begs numerous questions – just not the one you’ve asked. Nice try, doesn’t fly.
Thank you, Brent, for clarifying what really happened this year with our election process. This year, Shasta County can be proud of the leadership role it took in assuring our votes are held sacred. This has not been the case in previous years. Congratulations on all the hard work, planning, and preparation.
Only someone who is in utter and complete denial of reality would be able to say that they’re proud of the ‘leadership’.
In fact there was no such ‘leadership’. There was only the clown show because the circus came to Shasta county.
Such incompetence personified! This new “leadership” leaves A WHOLE LOT TO BE DESIRED! Vote FOR JOANNA, bring back intelligence, integrity and QUALIFIED EXPERIENCE!
Who do you think you are fooling? We see you and how badly this election process went. God help us (voters) in June. You and the ROV are inept and unworthy of the position. You both should resign. Shasta County is the laughing stock of the country thanks to both of you. I honestly believe you knew what you were doing when you shortchanged the pole workers for the hotline. I believe you knew it would disenfranchise some voters. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
Brent says: “…the fact Shasta County just set the standard for California regarding safe and secure transparent elections…”
You stocked key positions with rabid partisans and conspiracy cultists, stoking distrust.
Your web cameras didn’t work.
You failed to test your procedural switch to paper registration verification, resulting in voter disenfranchisement.
Your pace of ballot processing ranks second-worst in the state.
The buck stops over there, huh? You and your boss are pathetic.
Did the last SC Registrar Tom Toller, have the same problem by not reporting by a certain required deadline on the remaining uncounted ballots?
Clint Curtis should quit making excuses and stop spreading conspiracy thoughts. Own up to your lack of experience of supervising / overseeing an election in Shasta County.
Memo to Curtis and Turner complaining that press comments were due to bias: everyone who has worked any time in government knows that the press hardly ever reports on the planes that land safely. Welcome to government service and put on your big boy pants.
Catherine, you are spot on.
Richard Gallardo’s comment on ousting Crye and Kelstrom 28:51/55:01 on second hour of Freedom in action podcast https://kqms.com/podcasts/ Saturday 11/8/2025
That sack of trash is going to try to replace them with himself. There is no giving him credit on anything
Clint & Brent should have expected everyone watching them just as their supporters had been watching the previous election.
Their lack of knowledge of the process has shown at every level. Their show of cameras and monitors was just that, a show.
Like most of you I love watching elections. I check the County and State Elections websites for updates daily the first week of an election.
On the State’s website they have a spread sheet that is the Unprocessed Ballots Status. The first date to report was Thursday the 7th. It lists every county, showing where they are in processing all the ballots. It shows the last day updated and when to expect the next update. All counties had the information. Shasta County’s row was blank. The only shown activity for Shasta was about 1:30pm Wednesday morning, the first night. A day late, Clint finally reported at 5:00pm Friday. That report also has the last date of update and when to expect the next update. Nearly all counties had updated at least once since election night. When Clint reported Friday he listed the next update would be next Friday, the 14th. Most all counties show they will report again before next Friday. I’d like to see more reporting. Maybe they’re just being deliberate or maybe they don’t know what they’re doing. It’s obvious they have never visited the State website to know what the reporting process is. It’s not up to staff to do their job.
Let’s go back to the Counties website. It has the County’s process. It states on the 7th they were to publish “total available of remaining ballots to be added to the count”. That was the report they were suppose to give to the State. I could not find where they publish this to the public on the 7th. ???
So, they don’t even know their own website.
They blame the staff and the previous staff and take no responsibility.
How arrogant!
Elections Code section 15306 requires the county elections official to post updated results at least once per week.
Voters can demand more frequent reporting. But, ultimately whether to exceed the minimum requirement is an administrative decision of the county elections official.
I understand that. Thursday was a required. Anyone running an election should know that.
This makes me really concerned that the county election count website shows 100% precincts reporting, as if the final numbers are in. AND the local news has already reported that, according to Curtis, everything went great, everything was counted! And Measure A (tax increase) failed…
But at the state level, it says more than 1/2 the ballots in Shasta County remain uncounted (about 40,000).
What’s the deal with the uncounted ballots?
Is Measure A going to pass or fail?
Why are Curtis and his assistant blaming others? They were supposed to train everyone on the new system, and since it’s a new system, they should have kept a close personal eye on every detail. Details including State law and deadlines.
Training people takes time, especially when there are a lot of people, and they were used to a different system.
Robert: the county election site shows 100% of precincts reporting because all ballots cast in person on Election Day were counted by about midnight that night. That’s what that phrase means. Totally normal. Precinct votes include all the “bare naked ballots” cast without an envelope by voters on Election Day. Of course thousands of voters also turned in vote by mail ballots on Election Day, in their envelopes, at the precincts. Those are not considered precinct votes. They are vote by mail votes.
Technically, it only takes one ballot from a precinct in the state-certified voting systems for a precinct to show as reporting. Annelise is correct that this stat is simply a way to show at the end of Election Night that all in-person ballots have been included in the results.
Mr.Page: Thank you for this clarification! I appreciate it.
Thank you.
WoW! Redding Richard Gallardo Calls For RECALL Of Shasta County Supervisors Kevin Crye And Chris Kelstrom On Freedom In Action Radio Show!
If I may suggest to the Board of Supervisors, Fire the incompetent ROV Clint Curtis and hire Joanna Francescut! Bring in experienced and respected leadership to the Registrar of Voter position! A leader that respects her team!
I could never understand why they didn’t just do that in the first place. It would have made more sense to move her up to ROV and put another equally qualified person in her place. When you have a legitimately experienced person available, WHY would you fill the spot with someone who has absolutely NO experience in which they are in charge? I don’t care who it is, or what they’re being hired for.
Why?
Simple.
1. Crye and Co. are all sexists. Look how they have treated ANY woman in a position of authority in the past.
2. They DO NOT WANT someone competent in that position, they want someone who will do their bidding, the MAGA way.
Mr. Turner and Mr. Curtis are modern day snake oil salesmen, who are spreading their manure out far and wide hoping some of it will stick among the masses. For the rest, they have people like Pat Jones, “Stones” Gallardo, Patty Plumb, Lori Bridgeford and Laura “Ain’t met a lawsuit I didn’t like” Hobbs who will yell, intimidate, sue and will use tactics such as having one of their minions flash a camera flash around a woman with a seizure disorder, all because she DARE to testify against them. Funny when this waste of space was called out, he immediately packed up and scurried off.
I’m pretty confident that there’s been a miscommunication between the County and the Secretary of State and that Shasta intended to say they expect 40,898 total ballots (not counting anything that trickles in the mail through Monday) – not an additional 40,898 ballots.
That would mean Shasta counted ~86% of ballots within 5 hours of polls closing and 98% of ballots within 3 days – which is about as fast as you could reasonably expect in a state that allows a 7-day grace period for late VBM ballots (most states do not accept VBM ballots after election day)
Harry/Jay: almost 20,000 of the ballots were machine counted prior to Nov. 4 and were released in the first batch of results when the machines were queried after 8 pm on Election Day. I’m not sure why you think there’s been a miscommunication but Curtis told the Sac Bee on Friday, the same day results were turned in, that they had 32,000 ballots remaining to be counted.
The first release around 8:30pm Tuesday had 29,507 VBM ballots. They added 1,338 Election Day ballots around 11pm and another 4,439 ballots at 1:20am Wednesday morning. That’s a bit over 1,000 ballots/hour.
They did not count again until Friday morning and the tabulators were only operating about half the time on Friday. Just before 5pm they added 4,603 ballots to the count – again a bit more than 1,000 ballots/hour of active counting time.
If they still had 32,000 uncounted ballots, why would they send extra help home and not count at all on Wednesday or Thursday? Why would they say final results should be ready on Wednesday 11/12?
Jay/Harry: I agree that there are many questions. However your statements don’t match what I understand to have occurred. For example, why do you say they did not count again until Friday morning?
“why do you say they did not count again until Friday morning?”
They sent extra help home Wednesday and told them not to come back until Friday.
There was no livestream Wednesday or Thursday.
Workers on the Friday livestream were actively counting less than half the time. The ~4,600 VBM ballots added to the count Friday @ 5pm matched the slightly more than ~1,000/hour rate observed after polls closed Tuesday night.
Harry/Jay: How do you know they sent extra help home Wednesday and told them not to come back until Friday?
“How do you know they sent extra help home Wednesday and told them not to come back until Friday?”
That comes from Susanne Baremore: “All but four extra help staff were sent home around 11 a.m. on Wednesday, and told not to come back in until Friday.”
Jay/Harry: As reporters we always look to the election office to provide original source information which we then test and triangulate against other possible sources of information.
I consider reliable an election observer’s first person contemporaneous account, especially when that account matches both the livestream and the math.
I do not give much credence to credentialism, especially when the credentialed are widely known to lie, exaggerate, and misspeak.
It’s important to note that your access to the livestream is controlled by the credentialed. As are the numbers you’re using for your math.
Well you were right, the count now stands at 56,842 (about ~17,000 more than Friday).
So much for Curtis’ “everything on hand counted Tuesday night” statement.
I also can’t fathom why they sat on so many ballots for so many days. I’m also very surprised that election day turnout was just ~10% in a year when so many (including Curtis) were encouraging in person voting.
This is just another example of an incompetent person hired for a job they are not qualified to do. Shasta County is known across the country as a bunch of buffoons in prominent positions. Yes, believe it… a mere woman is just as qualified to do the job as any man. Where do they get these people!
Harry:
There does seem to be an issue with the numbers Shasta County has provided.
Their election results webpage shows 39,837 votes cast in the Proposition 50 contest, broken down by source:
– Vote-By-Mail: 34,060
– In-Person: 5,777
The voter history they have pushed up to the statewide voter registration database shows 37,524 ballots accepted, broken down by source:
– Vote-By-Mail: 37,490
– In-Person: 34
See the Ballot Statistics report posted on the Secretary of State website at https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/statewide-elections/2025-special/bsr-statistics.pdf
Their unprocessed ballots status report from Friday states Shasta County had processed 39,837 ballots and had 40,898 ballots it was still processing.
See the Unprocessed Ballots Status report on the SOS website at https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/unprocessed-ballots-status
The Secretary of State posts the numbers for all counties’ unprocessed ballots report on its website at https://electionresults.sos.ca.gov/unprocessed-ballots-status
But, note that SOS may not post a county’s latest report until the next day, depending on when the county emails their report.
To be expected. The easily verified lies being told by Curtis and his “Democrat” assistant (anyone can register with any party) is on brand.
Mr. Turner and Mr. Curtis are just following the lead what the board majority has done over the last several years, blame past leaders with false claims of incompetence. Facts are irrelevant. Kevin Crye continues to make false statements about several past county counsels and blames anyone else he feels threatened by. The facts remain, the county continues to be sued and the courts have revealed illegal actions by this board majority. We need ethical leaders and people with integrity to serve on this board. Not just the ones who reward their cronies and themselves. I attended a meeting in an adjoining county last night. Supervisors from other counties were there, and believe me we are the laughing stock of the state. How could our county go from being the shining star of the north state to the laughing stock of the north state in just five years? It’s fairly obvious…..
Mary Rickert, please go away. The voters in your district are tired of your leftwing politics. That is why they voted you out.
Way to make something up. Mary isn’t leftwing.
And she has been, and would have, been a better supervisor than Mr. “Cowboy Way” Harmon.
Voters in his district are ready for him to go.
Randy, as a property owner in Millville for over 60 years, i can tell you Mary is not left wing and we were very happy with her intelligent and balanced approach to politics. She recused herself from the vote on Hawes because there was a perceived conflict of interest with her husband being old friends with the owner. I wish she hadn’t, but that shows immense backbone. Meanwhile Corky has poor Andy Mangas (a personal friend of mine) OD in his bathroom and all he can say is “awww shucks, im a just keep on grading roads and pretend i have an opinion about anything else.” Kevin, like P Jones, will eventually fade away, so everyone please spare me the hyperbole that Mary is left wing or that Trump is Hitler.
Congrats. Your Mary bashing comment just encouraged me to donate more money to ACTUAL left leaning organizations to help encourage a broader cultural spectrum in Redding. And I for one miss you Mary. Corkey’s far right Christian national brigade were quite disingenuous when campaigning. There is a pile of buyers remorse in district 3. Corkey’s obvious shortcomings as well as the sub par choices continuously being made by your local maga board majority are far from popular. Shasta County is in a free fall with this new bunch at the helm. I am hearing recall war drums pounding.
Wow Randy-where are you from? Not local?? Her opinion is valuable. Mary has been a respected person and supervisor by most Shasta county voters on both sides of the aisle. Some of her votes may not have been popular with one side of the other but at least she researched and gave her rationale. If you think Harmon is her equal you’ve never listened to him at a board meeting. He takes his cue from Crye on how to vote. He struggles to even string a sentence or thought together.
Mary Rickert how much money did you make when the County Board voted to enact the Williamson act? Also, did you keep the money when the County Board voted you a salary raise. On the plus side, it’s always nice to see you at political fundraisers for Democrats.
Oh please…anyone who has been to a board meeting in the last 5 years can tell who you are. Why not post under your real name?
Also, your assertions have been debunked multiple, multiple times…
What a mess as predicted.
We need a woman to fix it.
NONE of the employees are responsible for Curtis’ or Turners incompetence. The ladies and gentlemen that work there give it their all and give 200%. Their lack of knowledge is why I didn’t volunteer this past election. I just retired from HHSA Admin and got out from incompetence and finger pointing, why would I want to volunteer to work for someone like that? Send the BOS in to do Curtis job since they hired someone without any brains. I’ll volunteer again when Joanna is elected into office. I hope Curtis and Turner don’t make anyone’s life miserable for their shortcomings. The employees don’t deserve that!
Really? Of course, what did we expect? “The vote will be counted and completed in two hours…” Right. And all elections are rigged—ask Turner, Jones, Curtis, Richie, Crye, Kelstrom, Corky, Hobbs’ Shasta 5, and their master, Trump—and don’t forget to ask, Let’s Have a Big Pizza Party, Patty! I mean, with Hugo Chavez (dead since 2023) flipping votes through thermostats, toasters, and refrigerators, and with Truner saying, “Joanna Francescut is still running the office,” of course, the elections are rigged! Jones and Hobbs really are supervisors, and Trump deserves another term, after all, they cheated him out of the 2020 election—everybody knows it; tell me otherwise, you Shasta County communists…..! But what Annalise forgot to add is what Kate Wolffe of Newsbreak reported yesterday: Clint said, “The people that were here didn’t actually know how to do that.” Really, you mean Ballot Initiative Hobbs, Secessionist Patty, and the local militia don’t know how to run the election? Why, it’s easy, just ask Hogo! Wolffe continued, “Curtis told The Sacramento Bee in a phone interview on Friday…that he doesn’t have the log-ins to the system because he has a reputation as a programmer and a hacker.” Wow, you just can’t make this up. In the meantime, here is a video of what Jones did recently in Trinity County, trying to trash Joanna Francescut at their Board of Supervisors meeting; it starts about 8 min in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp7YrPL56cA
Just missing the Italian satellites…..
Taking a cue from Trump and his administration blame bully and bs
Didn’t some of them show up at the Thursday BOS meeting for the splitting of CA? Why weren’t they at work in the election office?????
Yet, Mr. Curtis was pretty fast with his other lies to the Sac Bee (Fri Nov 7) about not having “the log-ins or passwords to the systems” that he said were necessary to provide this report to the the SOS – which lie does he want us to believe this time? Or is it that he’s just a liar? To Tanner’s point, mistakes can happen. Integrity is owning them, admitting them, and learning from them. It’s painfully obvious this dastardly duo will never do anything of the sort and will just continue to point fingers like petulant toddlers. If the BOS can’t fire him, and he won’t resign on his own, perhaps a Grand Jury investigation can get the job done.
The Board of Supervisors is the ultimate responsible party for this fiasco. They started it and they need to address it and resolve it… pronto.
They can’t do a thing. Curtis is there until the end of 2026, even if he doesn’t get re-elected. Think how much damage he can do come Nov. 2026. Think back to Jones and his last months…
Clint Curtis is the person responsible for any failures- FULL STOP. It is his own carelessness in not educating himself and being involved in the day to day operations with staff AND the reporting requirements for the election. Instead he busied himself with window dressing the office, making braggadocios speeches on with unrealistic 2 hour Election Day processing timeline then missing the required published state reporting deadline. Blaming employees rather than taking responsibility shows weak leadership. In fact he is not a leader and will be a liability. This rests with the supervisors as well who chose him over others who interviewed and were more qualified. This was simply a political hire orchestrated by Supervisor Crye that affects all of us. Since he is promoting hand counting of all ballots we should demand it at this point since there is lack of confidence in his performance.
Can we please add the names of the three supervisors that “selected” that guy.
The three supervisors who voted for Clint Curtis are Kevin Crye, Chris Kelstrom and Corkey Harmon. Remember those names when you vote next year.
I was in the elections office three of the four days of the election this past week. Let me be stunningly, crystal clear: Every employee in that office with the exception of two worked their tails off. The two, you ask? Clint and Brent. On Wednesday, Clint didn’t even make it into the office-THE DAY AFTER ELECTION DAY- until 9:44am. He did not appear on Friday until later in the morning. I never saw Brent on Friday at all. On Wednesday, Brent sat at the front desk the entire time I was in the building. I’ve never seen an assistant registrar of voters spend so much time on his ass DURING ELECTION WEEK. As someone who as observed dozens of elections throughout this country, I saw everyone doing their best this past week in the Shasta County ROV, in spite of having two leaders who do not know how to run an election office. And as to Clint trying to blame the lateness of the reporting to the state on an employee, here’s what I know– in the past three years, the job of running that report has generally been handled by either the Registrar or the Assistant Registrar? Why, you ask? As an elected official, the ROV understands the enormity of the responsibility of ensuring the election is conducted fairly and accurately. As to this idea that anyone– ANYONE– inside or outside that build was trying to slow up the process of county ballots, is ridiculous… with the exception of Clint. Clint actually DID tell an employee on Tuesday night to NOT do her job. He told her he wanted other tasks to be ‘front and center’… to be ‘the show’ for people. So, yeah… any talk of ‘slow rolling’ is ALL ON CLINT. I have a lot more to say about the cluster f**k that was our elections this past week, and will eventually be shouting it from the rooftops. For now, I’ll leave it at this: Clint Curtis is not competent in this role and he needs to resign, NOW.
From the livestream, they did not count any ballots on Wednesday or Thursday – which makes sense since if they counted everything on hand election night and were waiting for enough late vbm ballots to arrive to efficiently count the next ~4,600 ballots on Friday.
You’re 💯 percent correct. The only 2 spending their time doing social experiment exercises were Clint and Brent. Brent sat around at the front yucking it up like he was at a bar.
The staff appeared hard working and diligent.
What kind of leader publicly blames their staff for a mistake? When you lead a team of dedicated individuals, and things don’t go right, you take the responsibility. And when things do go right, you give your team the credit.
Management 101.
So was it an email delay or spooky scary malevolent former officials coercing the sweet and pure Curtis/Turner crew? I’m not sure which random narrative to believe? Surely it can’t just boil down to inexperience? It’s okay to just admit you don’t know, but you’re still learning. No, that would require a smidgen of humility. Here’s the deal; this was their first election, mistakes will happen especially when you overcomplicate already complicated things. This was a small election, learn from it, because the next one won’t be so easy. Good luck!
Great, impartial reporting again. I’ll state the obvious: Kevin is such an idiot. Hire competent people dude. Bring Joana back asap.
I read, “There are no comments on this article.” Well, what can one possibly add?
These two will say anything to deflect from their incompetence. They’ve made it very clear they have no interest in the process or the people.
Mr. Turner should be embarrassed for the baseless and moronic quotes he’s provided. He is quick to get upset and blame past department heads when facts gets posted about how he and Mr. Curtis intentionally avoid the responsibilities for their respective roles.
It’s so ironic that the people who speak so much about ‘transparency’ can’t be honest about the real day to day operations. I mean has anyone seen Mr. Turner at the elections building for more than 2 days a week? He sure doesn’t mind collecting a full paycheck.
This kinda stuff sure never ever happened until the Clint & Brent show arrived. And, just keep pointing those fingers, boys, we all believe you. Sure.
LOL
The City of Redding literally had to delay swearing in new candidates in 2024 because the results still weren’t ready after 1 month!
Lol @ your LOL.
Cringe.
Unlike special district directors and school district trustees, State law does not establish a specific date by which city council candidates must be sworn in.
In a city election consolidated with a statewide election, the elections official has 30 days to provide the statement of votes to each city with offices on the ballot. Elections Code section 15372
The City Council then “shall meet at its usual place of meeting no later than the next regularly scheduled city council meeting following presentation of the 28-day canvass of the returns, or at a special meeting called for this purpose, to declare the results and to install the newly elected officers.” Elections Code section 10263(b)