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Shasta county’s decision to move to a hand-count system has drawn support from the election denial movement

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The 15-page search warrant and affidavit was very specific about the target Shasta County sheriff’s officials were after.

The Shasta County Board of Supervisors has offered the job of running the day-to-day-operations of its government to a top figure in the New California movement pushing to split California into two states.

The Shasta County, California, Board of Supervisors has “upended the county’s election process,” the Los Angeles Times reported last week, “canceling its contract with Dominion Voting Systems.” The county could opt to hand-count ballots instead, which would likely delay results and promote more suspicion of elections. One supervisor said he…

Shasta county officials have ended their contract with Dominion Voting Systems, leaving them with no replacement

In two rural California counties, voters are showing increasing hostility and aggression toward election workers

Last April, Jessica Long’s family bought a 4-month-old goat and took it to their Shasta County, California, home, where Long’s young daughter named it Cedar, feeding and caring for it and bonding with it as she “would have bonded with a puppy.”

In Shasta county the pandemic intensified political divisions, and many officials quit or were pushed out amid bitter tensions

Shasta county’s recall efforts highlight how distrust in the government has led to increasing extremism in local politics