Judge Blocks Shasta County Measure B, Halting Mail Voting Ban and Voter ID Rules
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Updated · The Guardian · Oct 25
Judge Blocks Shasta County Measure B, Halting Mail Voting Ban and Voter ID Rules
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Oct 25
Summary
A California judge stopped Shasta County’s Measure B from taking effect, freezing a June-approved initiative that would have largely ended voting by mail, imposed voter ID and required hand counts.
The ruling keeps the county in a legal fight with the state over election rules that local conservatives pushed despite no evidence of widespread fraud in a county Republicans already dominate.
Measure B emerged after years of pandemic-era radicalization and election denial politics that helped install a hard-right county leadership and repeatedly fueled costly, error-prone hand-count proposals.
The dispute reflects Shasta’s broader shift from a New Deal-era Democratic stronghold into a MAGA bastion, as industrial decline, distrust of Sacramento and culture-war politics reshaped local life.