With more costs to come, Shasta County will spend $950,000 on new voting system

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Shasta County officials on Thursday approved spending $950,000 to hire a company to provide the equipment needed to hand-count ballots, something that hasn't been done in California in decades, at least not on the scale proposed in the county.

The Board of Supervisors' action comes even as elections officials try to develop a process that does away with machine counting and instead manually tallies ballots. County officials are also trying to figure out all of the costs associated with converting from machine counting.

The board's vote was driven by the majority of supervisors' distrust of the vote counting machines it was using, Dominion Voting Systems. But over the past few months a large number of people also urged the board to stick with Dominion, rather than hand counting.

Public comment before Thursday's board vote reflected the divide in the community over hand-counting versus machine tabulation.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/more-costs-come-shasta-county-120059511.html

[NotASurfer]

1. "...equipment needed to hand-count ballots..."

Pencils? Paper? Abaci (Assuming they also don't trust calculators because Q says secret baby-blood guzzling cabals use Starlink satellites to hack any microchip made in China using microwaves from cell towers)?

How does the equipment needed to hand-count ballots in Shasta county run a million dollars?

[RockRaven]

2. Why spend that money on your 43 elementary, 10 junior high, 8 high schools when you can

instead waste it on some dumbassed political posturing stunt?

Actually, I do know why. Because you're an R+20 county. That's why.

[BigmanPigman]

3. Ha! Shasta is a joke.

"The latest on Mike Lindell's offer to Kevin Crye"
"One speaker asked if MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell planned to pay the cost of hand-counting ballots in the county.

"Supervisor Kevin Crye said in February he had been in contact with Lindell, who said he offered the county financial support."

Gee, seems legit to me...

This same county wanted to hire a state secessionist a week ago.

"County rescinds job offer to Chriss Street"
"The Board of Supervisors also rescinded a job offer to a leader of a state secessionist movement during Thursday’s special meeting.

The county had nominated Chriss Street to become Shasta’s next County Executive Officer. But after receiving a background report on Street in late March, the five-person board unanimously decided to rescind their offer.

County resident Dana Silberstein said the supervisors have driven away qualified candidates."

https://www.ijpr.org/politics-government/2023-04-06/shasta-finally-picks-voting-system-rescinds-ceo-job-offer

[stopdiggin]

4. this is what committed MAGA crazy looks like

Not the foggiest clue where they're going, or how to get there - but they sure are 'ownin' those libs!'

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