Shasta County’s Election Fight Gets a Security Video
Shasta County Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis has released security footage that he says shows longtime Elections Office employees bypassing badge readers to enter secure election rooms without leaving their names in official access logs. According to reporting by Elisa Ballard of Shasta Unfiltered, Curtis presented the footage during an August 19 appearance on Catherine Engelbrecht’s True the Vote podcast. Curtis said employees were supposed to use individual security badges, which would record each employee’s name and time of entry. After taking over as Registrar of Voters in 2025, he reviewed electronic access logs and found hundreds of entries with no employee name listed. Curtis argues the video helps explain those gaps. If true, that is not exactly a “whoops, I forgot my lanyard” situation. In an election office, chain of custody is not a suggestion box item. It is the whole ballgame.
What Curtis Says the Footage Shows
The footage, as described in the report, allegedly shows one employee sliding a card through a double-door entry to unlock a secure room while another employee stands guard. Curtis says this allowed workers to enter restricted rooms without their individual badges being recorded. He described the conduct as a form of “breaking and entering” into a secure election area. To be clear, the footage alone does not prove why the employees entered the rooms, and it does not establish that ballots or election results were affected. That matters. Facts matter, even when the facts are inconvenient for the people running the building. But Curtis says deliberately defeating an election office access-control system creates a serious chain-of-custody concern and deserves an independent investigation.
Other Allegations Raised Inside the Elections Office
Curtis has also accused another employee of potentially issuing more ballots over the Elections Office counter than were documented in official reports. According to Shasta Unfiltered, Curtis alleges that the employee would report only six ballots had been issued when as many as 12 had actually gone out. Curtis further alleged that ballots and reports needed for balancing the election were concealed. Shasta Unfiltered also published a photograph it said showed ballots found underneath a cart used to transport unused ballots inside the ballot-balancing room. Curtis claims two workers intentionally shredded election-related documents after he had specifically told employees not to destroy anything. Those are serious claims, and they should be handled with evidence, not with a broom and a strongly worded memo from the “nothing to see here” department.
Watch the True the Vote Segment
https://rumble.com/v7eb300-ttv-now-live-trapped-and-special-guest-clint-curtis.html?start=2275
Watch Curtis Present the Security Footage
https://rumble.com/v7eb300-ttv-now-live-trapped-and-special-guest-clint-curtis.html?start=3004
County Officials Turn Their Fire on Curtis
Curtis was appointed Shasta County clerk and registrar of voters by the Board of Supervisors in April 2025 and took office the following month. His appointment came after the board passed over former Assistant Registrar Joanna Francescut, a longtime Elections Office employee. Some employees reportedly threatened to resign if Francescut was not selected, but they stayed. Curtis says certain longtime employees then worked from inside the department to undermine his authority and sabotage election operations. Meanwhile, two personnel investigations, one internal under Support Services Director Monica Fugitt and another by the outside Oppenheimer Investigations Group, substantiated allegations of abusive and retaliatory conduct against Curtis. Curtis has denied those accusations, and some newer Elections Office employees reportedly disputed claims made by longtime staff.
The Board Censure and Public Pushback
On August 11, the Shasta County Board of Supervisors voted 3-1 to censure Curtis over the workplace-misconduct findings. Supervisors Matt Plummer, Chris Kelstrom, and Allen Long voted for the censure, while Supervisor Corkey Harmon voted against it. Supervisor Kevin Crye was absent for medical reasons but later told Shasta Unfiltered he would have opposed the resolution. The censure is a formal public reprimand and does not remove Curtis from office. Local station KRCR reported that 23 of the 35 speakers who addressed supervisors before the vote defended Curtis. Immediately after the censure, Curtis invited reporters to the Elections Office and showed them the security footage he says depicts improper room entries. Shasta County then responded by criticizing Curtis, and in an August 14 statement county officials said they “disavow and denounce” him, according to the provided report.
Related Post on the Allegations
Pray for Clint Curtis in Shasta County, California.
He is one of the few honest election supervisors in the county. It appears his hand count team found fake and fraudulent ballots submitted in the last election.
There still appears to be a level of infiltration from election…
— David Clements (@theprofsrecord) August 24, 2026
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