Near-final results show Shasta’s vote holding steady
As an initial June 11 state deadline nears, the county has 1,423 ballots left to process.
About 54,000 ballots have been processed, according to results released at 4:35 p.m. today, and Shasta’s results are holding steady.
With only 1,423 ballots remaining to be counted, some outcomes seem clear, although election results won’t be official until the vote is certified.
Those results show former Assistant Registrar of Voters Joanna Francescut with 58.08% of the votes, remaining comfortably ahead of current Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis.
In the District 1 Supervisor race, Redding Council member Erin Resner’s lead remains strong with 54.46% of the votes. She’s more than 1,600 votes ahead of Supervisor Kevin Crye.
Anderson City Council member Mike Gallagher now holds 48.99% of the votes for District 5 Supervisor. Unlike Francescut and Resner, who are expected to win the primary with more than 50% of the vote, Gallagher is likely to face Supervisor Chris Kelstrom in a run-off this fall.
Measure B, a controversial election initiative likely to face legal challenges, is poised to become law with 55.32% of the votes.
The current number of ballots processed so far shows voter turnout at 46.55%.
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97 ballots left to process as of last night, 10 June, at 8:53:52 PM. Get ready for some serious vandalism by lame ducks.
Ref: https://results.enr.clarityelections.com/CA/Shasta/126486/web.345435/#/summary
I don’t understand why Shasta’s site is showing 1423 ballots left to be processed, but the State’s site says 1,224 estimated remaining and 477 to be cured. Does anyone know why these numbers don’t seem to match more closely?
It’s gotta be fraud. We told you there was fraud. And this proves it. This is exactly what Cutis and Hobbs and the gang would be saying if they were on the outside. Now that they’re on the inside and in charge maybe they can explain exactly why these numbers are off. I bet they have a reasonable explanation although they wouldn’t have excepted that same explanation if he weren’t in there seeing it first hand. So Clint whats the reason?
Measure B may “become law” when the election is certified, but it won’t stay on the books through November’s election. It’s no more than an exercise in self-indulgent paranoia by our local MAGA crackpots who hallucinate election fraud everywhere they fart. Measure B is also apparently supported to some extent (judging from the 55% “yes” majority) by a fair number of so-called “sensible conservatives.” The sensible conservatives must feel that they can’t win in the arena of competing ideas, so limiting participation in elections is the next-best strategy.
I think you might be giving them too much credit for actually knowing what is in the measure. I am guessing most of them just saw “Voter ID” and said yup
Maybe, but I’ve debated enough local “sensible conservatives” on social media to think that they know exactly what they’re trying to achieve with all of these restrictions to make voting more difficult. Of course, they deny that voter disenfranchisement is the goal, but when you challenge them to produce evidence of all that election fraud they say justifies the draconian reforms, they got nothin’.
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I actually agree that California election law needs to be tweaked so that ballots aren’t being counted for weeks and elections aren’t being aren’t being certified a month after election day. But those tweaks would fall far short of what Republicans desire and need to disenfranchise enough voters to make a difference.
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I have to laugh that most of the people who voted for Measure B voted by mail/drop-off to eliminate voting by mail/drop-off. Nippleheads.
Its the rights version of prop 50. You do see that dont you? Probably not. We could try prop C where we take your guy Cesar Chavez day and turn it into Election Day and everyone has to show an ID to vote.
Thank you for this update. It seems this election is so mired in controversy and intrigue that getting timely basic facts is nearly impossible.
The only fact I’m I care about is the fact that Crye and his boy Curtis will be out of office real soon. The rest we will just have to deal with.