After California sued Shasta County to block a ballot measure that seeks to limit voting by mail and require voter photo IDs, the county Board of Supervisors on June 16 unanimously agreed to decline funding for a legal defense and to let the court battle play out.
Ballot Measure B, which passed in the June primary with 56 percent approval, would place heavy restrictions on mail-in ballots, mandate election staff to hand-count ballots, require voters to show government-issued photo identification to register to vote and to cast ballots, and establish a voter registration system for the county separate from the state’s voter rolls.
