Shasta Co. CEO candidate being investigated, supervisors decide to ditch voting machines
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by Mike Mangas, Adam RobinsonTue, March 28th 2023, 5:48 PM PDT
Board of Supervisors Chambers empty between meetings (KRCR – Mike Mangas)
REDDING, Calif. — A source from the Redding Police Department told KRCR they are looking into a possible harassment case involving a candidate for Shasta County CEO, Chriss Street.
KRCR’s source says the alleged victim is a female juvenile who claims the harassment has been ongoing for some time at a local athletic club.
Redding police are not sure whether any crime has been actually committed at this point, but they are still investigating.
At Tuesday’s supervisors meeting, County Counsel Rubin Cruse made the announcement following a closed session by the board.
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FILE – Photo of Chriss Street during an interview with KRCR in March 2023. (KRCR)
“The Board of Supervisors received a background report on Chriss Street, regarding his candidacy for the CEO position. By law, Mr. Street has five days to respond to the investigator concerning its contents. Five business days, I should say. And so, the board has not made any decision concerning Mr. Street’s candidacy at this time,” said Counsel Cruse.
Cruse says the five days for Street to respond is standard procedure. That followed almost an hour of public comment concerning the vacant CEO position—overwhelmingly against hiring him.
“I have not seen anyone be appointed to a CEO position with this much baggage, period, full stop,” said one speaker during public comment.
“The audience might like to know that 98% of the respondents to the poll were against Chriss Street,” said another speaker.
“If he does any of these things on the job, you guys are going to be responsible for the fact that you have knowingly, and willfully, hired a criminal,” said another speaker.
“I can’t explain, or even defend, anything about his past. We don’t need someone perfect, we need someone with constitutional courage that’s going to be a whistleblower,” another speaker said.
Then, in the afternoon, the board took up voting machines, after canceling the county’s contract with Dominion Voting Systems. They heard presentations from other state-approved systems and public comment both in the morning and afternoon.
Dominion voting machine
“I would prefer to have the hand-tally. I don’t mind volunteering. I can be fair,” said one speaker during public comment in the afternoon.
“This board needs to do the fiscally and practical thing by choosing to resend prior direction to staff, terminating the agreement with Dominion Voting Systems,” said another speaker.
“Ms. Darling Allen, who had used Dominion machines in our process for years, had no doubts about the accuracy of those machines, received a higher percentage of the vote in Shasta County than Donald Trump,” said one speaker.
“I am 100% for hand-counting all ballots, for all contests. For years, entire ballots were hand counted, on voting day, without a problem,” one speaker said.
“I would like to show you the evidence of voter fraud that has been found all across the U.S. from every different kind of voting machine. It’s not just Dominion,” said another speaker.
“It’s troubling that the board’s 3-2 majority, which claims to be fiscally conservative, has instead chosen to terminate the Dominion Voting System contract prematurely, without having a due diligence, or a viable alternative, in place,” said another speaker.
In the end, the Shasta County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 in favor of hand voting ballots.
Outside of the Shasta County Clerk & Elections Office in Downtown Redding, Calif. on Jan. 30, 2023. (KRCR)
Shasta County Clerk and Registrar of Voters Cathy Darling Allen wrote a letter to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. The letter warns of the potential consequences of recent actions taken by the board in regard to their removal of the county’s voting system, Dominion Voting Systems, and now installing a hand-tally system.
“We conclude that it would cost a minimum of $1,651,209.68 and require the addition of 1,300 county staff members to implement a full manual tally,” Darling Allen wrote.
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