Shasta County’s Board of Supervisors president says law doesn't apply.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom talks to reporters in the spin room following the FOX Business Republican Primary Debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on September 27, 2023signed legislation into law on Wednesday that will limit the ability of local governments to manually count ballots less than a year after one northern county’s governing board ditched its contract with Dominion Voting Systems and decided to tabulate results by hand.
With roughly 112,000 registered voters, the county’s plan would have made Shasta one of the largest in the U.S. to hand count votes -- a particularly labor-intensive and time-consuming undertaking in California, which frequently has complex ballots that can feature dozens of contests at a time, each with several candidates, and numerous statewide and local ballot propositions.
According to Allen, who has long opposed the board’s plans to hand count, the county spent “a couple hundred thousand” dollars to cancel the remainder of its contract with the company.But state and federal law requires jurisdictions to contract with an approved vendor, like Dominion, to provide accessible voting machines that allow all voters to cast a ballot privately and independently.
Voters who cast ballots at home or by mail – as the vast majority do – will mark paper ballots as they have for years, which will be scanned and machine tabulated. Voting machines for those with disabilities or others who require one will also be available at each precinct. Newsom’s office dismissed the prospect of a legal challenge, telling ABC News that the state was not concerned about the bill standing up in court.
“I don't believe that this is a way to engender trust or confidence in the system. And I say that because, especially in California, elections have become more and more complex over the past several decades because of our ability to count more complex ballots using technology,” she said in September.
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