A California county ditched its vote counting machines. Now a supporter faces a recall election
Voters in a rural Northern California county will decide whether to recall a local elected official in a race that centers on hand-counting of ballots
REDDING, Calif. (AP) — Voters in Northern California's rural Shasta County have twice voted for Donald Trump by wide margins while electing staunch conservatives to the local county board. They've even booted out some who weren't deemed conservative enough.
But that string of victories at the ballot box has not been enough to instill confidence in the county's election system — not when Trump and his allies have repeatedly spread false claims about rigged elections and voter fraud, even in the strongly Republican area.
A county known mostly for Lassen Volcanic National Park and views of the snow-capped peak of Mount Shasta abruptly got rid of its ballot-counting machines last year. Those machines were made by Dominion Voting Systems, the company at the center of debunked conspiracy theories about how Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to Democrat Joe Biden.
