New Shasta results show margins for Francescut, Resner, Gallagher increasing, Measure B’s decreasing
The vote totals are still far from complete, about 30,000 of the county’s estimate of 58,000 ballots — also a moving target — still remain to be counted.
Shasta’s latest election results include an additional approximately 5,500 ballots that were processed today.
Those results show a 2% increase in former Assistant Registrar of Voters Joanna Francescut’s lead over current Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis. She now has 58.11% of the vote for Shasta’s county clerk role.
Redding Council member Erin Resner is also improving her margin for the Shasta County District 1 supervisor seat. Her top competitor is Supervisor Kevin Crye. She currently has 55.35% of the vote, an increase of almost 2%.
Anderson City Council member Mike Gallagher’s vote totals increased by about 1%, to 49.51% of the vote. He’s running for Shasta County’s District 5 supervisor seat against Supervisor Chris Kelstrom, who has 40.81%.
If Francescut and Resner hold their leads, they’ll secure their races in the primary without needing to go to a run-off this fall. Gallagher has not yet reached the critical 50% plus one needed to avoid a fall run-off with Kelstrom.
Meanwhile Measure B, a controversial ballot initiative that appears illegal to implement under current state and federal laws, has lost some of its early margin of success. Yes votes are currently at 53.64%, that’s a decrease of 2%.
Votes from about 28,500 ballots have been counted for the June 2 election so far. Approximately 30,000 remain to be counted, according to an estimate shared by Shasta election official Clint Curtis earlier today.
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“Ballots cast” is an interesting phrase. The legislature could have said simply “votes counted” but they didn’t. About 10% of Shasta County voters leave blank down ballot contests like for county supervisor (in 2024, 1,779 District 3 voters left their ballot blank compared to 17,157 who voted).
Perhaps Curtis and/or Crye will challenge their losses based on this legal ambiguity and advance to the general election anyway.
My in-person vote is still missing. Mr. Curtis called me back after I reported the problem. My vote has not even been accepted on Ballottrax. Curtis tried to just tell me that my vote had been counted if I voted in person. I have asked him to prove it. Someone was supposed to get back to me but, crickets.
Burney VFW was my polling place.
I thought Curtis said they would be counting approximately 14,000 ballots a day which would make them done after Monday’s count. 5,000 more ballots added to the total today means his estimate fell short on the this first day by 9,000 votes. Not only can he not do the job, but the poor guy is bad at basic math too.