A California county wants to hire Tina Peters to help run its elections
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Clint Curtis, the registrar for voters in Shasta County, Calif. said he plans to hire convicted felon and election denialist Tina Peters as one of his top deputies.
Curtis said he plans to hire Peters next month as an assistant registrar, according to local news outlets , which cited text exchanges with Curtis.
CyberScoop has reached out to Shasta County’s elections office for comment.
If Peters is hired, it would represent a marriage between a conspiracy-minded election official from another state and an equally distrusting electorate.
Donald Trump won Shasta County approximately two-thirds of voters in the county in all three presidential elections dating back to 2016. Its conservative residents have adopted Trump’s rhetoric that election fraud, voting machine hacks, noncitizen voting and other problems plagued the system, and have turned their anger at local officials.