Shasta County Supervisors held a special closed session meeting Friday morning to discuss a new plan after a judge denied their request for a preliminary injunction against a group of citizens to introduce a voter ID initiative on the 2026 ballot.
A group of citizens in the county drafted a ballot initiative intending to amend the county’s charter, through a charter amendment initiative, to guarantee election integrity. The proposition includes a provision for single-day voting, manual counting of ballots, limiting absentee ballots, requiring voter ID, and a variety of other proposals.
The Shasta County Board of Supervisors filed a lawsuit against the five individuals who submitted the initiative, requesting a preliminary injunction against the group, which would have relieved County Counsel Joseph Larmour from creating a title and summary for the ballot measure….