Election Chief Hired Without Experience

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California election workers quit as self-appointed observers roam Shasta County office

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Shasta County supervisors hired an elections chief without experience just months before the election.

Ten of the registrar’s 21 employees have left, and many are working their first election.

The longtime registrar of voters, Cathy Darling Allen , retired early in May after being diagnosed with heart failure.

This comes as election officials across the nation received death threats following the 2020 and 2022 elections.

Darling Allen said they had to begin keeping narcan a medication that reverses drug overdoses in the office after other election offices received mail containing fentanyl.

She called Shasta a microcosm of what’s happening nationally.

“You know, this is happening all over the place,” she said.

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