"When Clint Curtis was appointed to oversee voting in California's Shasta county earlier this year, the Florida-based lawyer and election skeptic pledged to fix the voting process. Curtis had never before administered an election and didn't live in this rural northern California region. But he was well-known to followers of the US election denialism movement, who believe the voting system is not secure and that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election."
"On 4 November, California voters will decide on a high-stakes redistricting proposal in the first election Curtis is tasked with administering. The special election is one with particular national importance: the ballot measure proposes to suspend the work of California's independent redistricting commission and allow the legislature to redraw congressional districts to carve out five additional Democratic seats in the US House of Representatives. The effort is a direct attempt to neutralize Texas's partisan gerrymander, which, engineered at Trump's behest, created several new safe Republican districts."
"Curtis says he's overseeing the most transparent election in county history, with a livestream of ballot processing and a new area set aside for observers. We're showing people everything, which means they actually have no reason to mistrust it, because they can watch it with their own eyes, he said. Clint Curtis says he's running the county's most transparent election yet, with a livestream of ballot processing."
Clint Curtis, a Florida-based lawyer and election skeptic, was appointed to oversee voting in Shasta County despite never having administered an election and not residing in the region. He is known to followers of the US election denialism movement who claim voting systems are insecure and allege Trump won in 2020. Curtis implemented livestream ballot processing and an observers' area, framing the effort as unprecedented transparency. The first election he administers on 4 November is a high-stakes redistricting special election proposing to suspend the independent redistricting commission and let the legislature redraw districts to add five Democratic seats.
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