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Voters in Northern California's rural Shasta County have twice voted for Donald Trump by wide margins while electing staunch conservatives to the local county board. On Tuesday, voters get to have their say on the county's direction since a slate of far-right conservatives who question the validity of elections took control of local government two years ago.
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As in other places, distrust of government surged in Shasta County during the COVID-19 pandemic, when schools and most businesses closed. A group calling itself a militia started raising the temperature in local public meetings. During one meeting in 2020, a man told county supervisors, "You have made bullets expensive. But luckily for you, ropes are reusable."
Voters in a rural Northern California county will decide whether to recall a local elected official in a race that centers on hand-counting of ballots.
Voters in this rural California county have twice voted for Donald Trump by wide margins while electing staunch conservatives to their local governing board, even going so far as to boot some from office who were deemed not conservative enough. The Northern California county, known mostly for Lassen Volcanic National Park and views of the snow-capped peak of Mount Shasta, abruptly got rid of its ballot-counting machines last year.