Measure B remains suspended after latest court ruling
Elections are still slated to be held as usual this fall after proponents’ most recent attempt to ensure implementation of Measure B failed in court late last week.
The significant changes that would’ve been brought forth by Measure B, the controversial election law passed by voters in June, remain unlikely to affect the November election.
Measure B was passed by nearly 56% of voters in the June primary. While it was promoted as a measure on voter ID, it included a number of provisions making sweeping changes to Shasta County’s elections law, several of which are illegal under state and federal laws.
A Shasta judge suspended the new law last month so that it wouldn’t impact the fall election while its legality is being decided in the courts, a process that could take several more months.
Shortly after that ruling, proponents of the measure appealed the judge’s decision and submitted a request for the court to essentially unfreeze the state’s motion while the appeal was decided.
But late last week, an appellate court denied the proponents’ request to unfreeze the state’s motion, keeping it in place and preventing the county from implementing the measure, at least for now.
The full appeal of the judge’s order to suspend Measure B has not yet been ruled on. But because the process to submit ballot copy and other election-related materials for the November election has already begun, it’s too late for Measure B to be implemented this fall even if it gets worked out in the courts, Shasta Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis said yesterday.
He explained that restarting the printing process if another court ruling is issued before November would cost the county about $100,000, noting that the county is contracting with Hart InterCivic this election to prepare ballot materials for the printer, Runbeck Election Services.
Even if Measure B were to be ruled legal in the coming weeks leading up to the election, Curtis added, it would be very difficult for his office to pivot to fulfill the requirements of the new law, including finding enough staff to hand-count ballots at the precincts as required by the measure.
“[It’s] Still possible with a super human effort but very very hard,” he wrote by text. He said it “would not be practical to try to switch to a [Measure B] type of election” at this point in the election cycle.
The lawyer representing Measure B proponents, Alexander Haberbush, noted that while the appeal itself has yet to be ruled on, and a date for that ruling has not been set, the full court process is important.
“The voters of Shasta County made their decision on June 2,” he said in an email statement. “We intend to see that it gets the complete judicial review it deserves.”
The California Attorney General’s and Secretary of State’s Offices released a joint press release following the latest ruling, saying it “ensures that Measure B will remain not in effect while the case continues and directs the county to abide by the status quo and hold their elections in accordance with state election laws.”
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This extremist far-right battle is directly tied to the local and national Republican Party, to national conspiracy propaganda groups, dark money funders, neo-nazi anti-government militias, white christo-fascists, and corporate fascism, all of which bind them directly to the leader of this movement, Donald Trump (who was also endorsed by the SCRCC) and who, as of this week, is working in the federal district court in Massachusetts and the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals TO TAKE OVER ALL ELECTIONS in the United States.
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Only 61 days remain until the No. 03 election. Vote as if you’re voting to fight white nationalist fascism in America and save our representative democracy while you still can.
…..and a date for that ruling has not been set, the full court process is important.
“The voters of Shasta County made their decision on June 2,” he said in an email statement. “We intend to see that it gets the complete judicial review it deserves.”
This puts a big smile on my face. Like Gary said, Haberbush will milk these election deniers all the way to the SCOTUS if they can keep wiring him thousands in legal fees.
I’m sure the Jones / Hobbs / Curtis / Haberbush Klan have delusional fantasies of taking their failed case to SCOTUS. But their social-political leader, the court adjudicated rapist- a 34-count convicted felon bet them to it.
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The court-adjudicated rapist just filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court, leapfrogging over U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani’s case heard today, who has not issued a ruling as of yet, and jumping over the U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit, who the court-adjudicated rapist filed with yesterday in anticipation that they would lose today’s hearing in the U.S. Distict Court
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This shows the panicked determination of the Republican Party – court-adjudicated rapist as they try to take over the elections of the United States of America.
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I’m sure our local MAGA is praying in tongues and sacrificing something to their GOD, that SCOTUS will save the day for them.
Interesting metaphor. Is something else going on? Wanna talk about it?
God I hope this is satire.
It would be easy to imagine Tina Peters on a conference call with Patric Jones, Kevin Crye, Clint Curtis, Laurie Hobbs, and, of course, Mr. Pillow, plotting to make Shasta County “The Tip Of The Spear” for MAGA. After all, they’re all extreme right-wing election liars, failed or rejected politicians, and/or court losers, and, in Peters, an election liar and convicted felon election fraud criminal, just like all the above like to call a hero.
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The other common denominator is their delusional nonsense, that has cost Shasta County MILLIONS, in their propagation of lies for their leader – hero, a court-adjudicated rapist, a 34-count convicted criminal felon who is desperately thrashing about in the courts, trying to interfere with our elections as we speak.
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It was also easy to think the Curtis – Peters joke was just that, another failed political joke at a great cost to Shasta County in money and social division.
The will of the people thwarted once again by communists who hate our way of life. I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify our precious bodily fluids.
Thank you for your unwavering commie-bustin’ support, “General”. (;
The FBI is looking for you son… lmfao.
At this point, Haberbush is just running up fees. I wonder if he is a distant relative of Dr. Hugo Hackenbush from “Day at the Races”.
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“No matter what I treat them for, they die of something else.” —Dr. Hackenbush
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“No matter what I bill them for, they fail for some other reason.” —Haberbush, Esq.
Could be…they’re both in the shrub family.