The California county where far-right officials tried to upend voting

Sh Shasta ounty, California, voted for a hand-counti a night em in a special electi the evening of this h November 's registrar of voters, Cathy Darling Allen, had been at odds with the board of supervisors for months.

A bill passed in October preventing counties from using manual tallies in most elections.

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Shasta county elections office p Before 2020 ll metal gate in place to secure voting equ California Patrick Jon 180,000 board chair, insisted that the law did not apply to Shasta.

When the state made clear that it did, he argued it was government overreach.

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