washington dc — The California Senate is considering Congressional Bill 969, a recently passed bill that would change how counties handle contracts and plans for voting systems. The bill has already passed parliament on April 27.
AB 969 announced that Shasta County, California, an upstate red county, has resolved to terminate its voting machine contract with the Dominion Voting System and instead manually count ballots in all future elections. enacted in response to This action ensures that the county does not have a plan to count votes or an approved vendor to serve voters with disabilities, and whether the county can conduct future elections in compliance with all relevant state and federal laws. There was considerable uncertainty about To solve the problem, the state legislature introduced AB 969 to prevent other counties from taking similar steps and to ensure the stability of California’s election run into 2024.
Under AB 969, counties are prohibited from canceling voting system contracts unless a replacement contract and transition plan has already been developed. This measure would ensure that the county would always be ready to conduct elections and avoid the uncertainties that currently plague Shasta County.
Shasta County’s decision to terminate its contract with the Dominion is just one offshoot of a right-wing conspiracy theory about voting machines. Cochise County, Arizona, was embroiled in a protracted legal dispute last year after repeated attempts to manually count all ballots in the midterm elections. Just last month, Arizona Senate Majority Leader Sonny Borelli (R) called on all Arizona counties to comply with onerous voting machine requirements that effectively ban all tallying machines in the state. sent a letter.
Read AB 969 here.
