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Rural California county keeps ultra conservative official who pushed to upend voting system
(Guardian UK) Shasta county voters returned a mixed verdict on the ultra-conservative politics the rural enclave in northern California has become known for, ousting one far-right local official and offering another a political lifeline.
County residents on 5 March resoundingly declined to re-elect Patrick Jones to the board of supervisors, the county’s governing body. Jones, a leader of the local far-right movement, had repeatedly, and baselessly, argued that county and US elections are being rigged. Jones’s opponent, Matt Plummer, won the race for the seat with nearly 60% of the vote.
But on Thursday, after more than three weeks of counting votes, officials announced that voters had rejected an effort to recall Kevin Crye, another far-right supervisor on the board.
Voters opted to keep Crye on the board of supervisors with a razor-thin margin of 50 votes, according to results from the Shasta county elections office. .............(more)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/28/california-voters-election-denialism-kevin-crye-recall
