Northern California election workers quit after self-appointed observers roamed their office in Shasta County, where conservatives ave questioned voting machines.
An election observer watches as workers process ballots at the Shasta County Clerk Registrar of Voters office in Redding on Oct. 30, 2024. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMattersShasta County supervisors hired an elections chief without experience just months before the election. He’s already falling out of favor.On Wednesday, as the workers of the Shasta County Registrar of Voters office busily sifted through the ballots that have already been cast, they had company.
“It isn’t transparent,” said a woman named Elizabeth who wouldn’t give her last name. “To be transparent we have to be able to hear them.” Voters are legally allowed to enter the office and observe the election process. Johnson said a lot of them, however, are on edge and “very angry.” “They want to catch us in a lie, so they’ll try to trick you into saying something,” he said. “A lot of times they’ll be secretly videotaping you or recording you.” Ten of the registrar’s 21 employees have left, he said. Many of the people who remain are working their first election.
The new registrar, Tom Toller, impressed Republicans on the board with his stated willingness to stand up to the California Secretary of State’s Office. But just three months into his tenure, one of those supervisors, Patrick Jones, has already turned on him, according to Johnson said Francescut, who stayed on as deputy, handles much of the day-to-day work at the office. “He’s really busy dealing with the political aspect of it,” Johnson said. “People aren’t happy with him. County supervisors show up all the time.”
“Nobody goes to school and says, ‘Hey, I wanna be an elections official.’ There isn’t official training on that. It’s a lot of on-the-job training, on-the-job experience,” Francescut said.
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