Elections
Dominion voting machine conspiracies drive rural California counties to drop election systems
PN Team • 2 months ago
Shasta County's Board of Supervisors has canceled its contract with Dominion Voting Systems and is weighing a switch to hand-counted ballots, driven by unproven fraud claims embraced by the board's hard-right majority. MyPillow CEO and prominent election denier Mike Lindell praised the move, calling on other counties to follow suit, and offered to help fund any resulting lawsuits after speaking with a Shasta supervisor. Kern County supervisors similarly fielded hours of testimony from residents alleging the county's Dominion system was rigged.
Dominion, one of the largest U.S. voting equipment suppliers and currently in use in 41 of California's 58 counties, said the Shasta decision reflects lasting damage from false claims that spread after President Trump's 2020 election loss. Shasta's clerk and registrar said the county now effectively lacks a voting system. The dispute underscores how 2020 election-fraud narratives continue to shape local election administration well beyond the original battleground states.
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- Donald Trump Trump's 2020 election loss and the false fraud claims that followed are cited as the root cause of the ongoing damage to Dominion's reputation and election trust.
- Republican Party (United States) The hard-right majority of Shasta's board, largely Republican-aligned, is portrayed as driving the county's decision based on unproven fraud claims.
- California California is the broader setting where rural counties are dropping Dominion systems, a factual and largely neutral geographic reference.