Shasta Elections Office provides deadlines for filing arguments for or against Measure B
A controversial ballot measure related to elections is still facing a legal challenge. In the meantime, the community is invited to submit arguments for or against the measure for possible inclusion in the voter information guide for the June 2026 election.
The local elections office has released dates for submitting arguments for or against Measure B, a controversial election initiative that’s slated to appear on voters’ ballots in June.
The measure, which the Shasta Elections Office refers to by the title Local Elections Transparency and Security Reform, calls for changes to Shasta’s charter law to implement local election rules that, if implemented, would contradict current state and federal laws.
More than 7,000 citizen signatures gathered in support of the measure have been verified by the elections office, allowing it to be placed on ballots. But a legal challenge, alleging that doing so would be an irreparable waste of taxpayer funds, is still wending its way through the courts, with the next hearing scheduled for March 25.
Meanwhile, a press release sent out Thursday by Community Education Specialist David Wylie included a deadline of Friday, March 13, at 5 p.m. for arguments for and against Measure B to be submitted to the elections office.
One argument for the measure, and one against, will be selected by the Shasta Elections Office for inclusion in the voter pamphlet sent out before the June election, as required by law. Priority will be given to arguments submitted by the Shasta County Board of Supervisors, proponents of the measure, any bona fide association of citizens or any individual voter, in that order. Arguments are required to be under 300 words.
California law also calls for the county election official to transmit a copy of the measure to county counsel in order to prepare an impartial analysis of the measure’s impact on current law, which should also be printed in the voter information guide.
If directed by the board, the county auditor may also prepare a fiscal analysis of the costs of implementing the measure, although county supervisors have already missed the last date to ask the auditor to prepare that information, a deadline which fell on March 6.
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If it makes to the printer, the printer could be included in a lawsuit, can’t play innocent on this one, too much media play on Measure B. and in case it does make it to the printer, Arguments against it have been filed with local signatures. I personally witnessed one of the signature collectors giving false information to a potential signer. She knows who she is and was not allowed to be on the property.
I read some words about where the Clerk was and was not sending press releases. Oddly, this one with important information is not posted on the county website, that I see.
What is? The important news this week of Clint Curtis’ polygraph test!
https://elections.shastacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Polypraph-Exam-Press-Release-March-10-2026.pdf
Mr Curtis made up his own questions, the polygraph test is meaningless.
Funny how there was never an issue with voter fraud until Trump lost the election. This is yet again Trump and the the Heritage Foundation pushing their agenda. Christian Gardinier has it right this is MAGA at its finest.
What is even funnier, is that every mega-star, millionaire, billionaire and everyone’s mothers uncle wanted to have their selfies taken with Trump until he got elected President and actually did what he said he was going to do. And I think we should keep in mind, the election was lost DUE to voter fraud. Well done Donna, you have revealed the quality of your character for everyone to see!
Funniest thing yet: still not a single shred of proof or evidence of this election fraud. Zero. Nada. Zilch. NOTHING.
Hey Casey, maybe you can be the first one to provide the evidence. Whatcha got? Anything? Any little thing?
Surely an independent thinker like yourself can provide something…
So, the Supervisors have missed the March 6 deadline to have the auditor report on costs associated with implementation? As ROV, Cathy Darling Allen wrote a 26 page memo regarding the costs of hand counting Shasta’s ballots, which she estimated to be in the millions. I think the missed deadline was intentional on the part of proponents on the Board and their puppet Clint Curtis.
For and Against Measure B.
• Forget the fact that there is no voter fraud in Shasta County! According to the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation (which used 140 Trump staffers to write Project 2025), the “Election Fraud Database” shows there are only 55–69 documented voter-fraud cases in California from roughly 1993–2024.
• Forget that the Shasta County Grand Jury has investigated the Shasta County Elections Office multiple times since 2019, finding no evidence of wrongdoing, fraud, or misconduct in how elections are conducted and concluded in a 2024 report on “Citizen Oversight of Shasta County Elections,” that election procedures and security met or exceeded legal requirements.
• Forget that Trump, P. Jones and L. Hobbs are losers in courts and in elections.
• Forget that taxpayers have already spent millions to build the BIG LIE propaganda machine for MAGA, making Shastalaban an international laughingstock! Your job as voters is to lie for MAGA, and Measure B, backed by L. Hobbs, Clint Curtis, and P. Jones is the perfect tool! So are you!
Here’s why you need to vote for the illegal Trump drunk-driven slow-moving car wreck Measure B… AT WHATEVER THE COST!
• Because Trump, a court-adjudicated rapist and convicted 34-count felon (for fraud…), the Shasta County Republican Party, and MAGA supervisors on the board of supervisors need us to be the tip of the lying propaganda spear for MAGA!
• Shasta County MAGA, Clint, and losers Hobbs and Jones need the state to sue us at the cost of many millions because roads, schools, health care, and infrastructure ARE NOT THE JOB OF GOVERNMENT! The job of government is to support all that is MAGA (Make America Grifters Again), Trump, and his policies!
Do Your Job!
I hope the argument against the measure points out the Vote By Mail (VBM) method will be largely eliminated if this charter amendment is passed and implemented. Nearly 90% in Shasta County used VBM in last election which means voters completed their ballot and mailed it or dropped it to a drop box, polling place or Election Office. Only about 10% voted in person. When you look at all the changes this measure requires, it is voter suppression on steroids!
Good point
Don’t forget anyone who works over seas, such as military personnel. These people always say how we should honor our military, but only when it suits their agenda.
Don’t forget that under Measure B, because of divorce and other life circumstances, about 15 thousand Shasta County female voters will need to change their name, get a new birth certificate and other ID to vote!
But of course there’s a lot of MAGA that say females should not be able to vote anyway…
Trump has made it very clear that unless he can prevent millions from voting, Republicans will lose control of the House and Senate. That is why he is desperate to see the SAVE Act passed.
Just vote No on Measure B should you get a fake ballot in the mail, be ready for that little trick.
Are you deliberately not mentioning laws violated and costs associated with this measure? Do your job. Report all the facts.