Thread by @ElizLanders

You've seen the Dominion v. Fox News lawsuit all over the news - but what you probably haven't seen is this story about what happened when Shasta County, CA terminated their contract with Dominion at the end of January... 🧵

We went to Shasta Co at the end of February to attend some county meetings on the matter, which predictably went off the rails. The majority Republican board is pushing for the Dominion machines to be replaced by a hand count.

One resident, Nathan Pinkney, posed to the board chairman: "If you owned a Lamborghini, right, and then Fox News told you you can't trust your Lamborghini, would you trade your Lamborghini for a clown car? Then why are you going to do that to our voting systems?"

The county clerk, @CathyDrlngAllen, estimates that a new voting machine contract could cost several million dollars over the course of 10 years. She calls the lack of trust in election administration "an American problem - not a Democrat or Republican problem."

Like many election officials across the country since 2020, this has gotten personal: "We didn't break trust with the voters. We didn't break trust with the vendors or the candidates. Somebody decided to start lying and those lies caught fire."

Basically everyone we spoke with at these meetings in Shasta had heard of Dominion v. Fox News lawsuit. GOP supervisor Mary Rickert voted to keep the Dominion machines in her town - and pointed out to fellow supervisors that they were elected *using* Dominion machines.

Rick Hutchinson supported the decision to get rid of the Dominion contract: "How am I supposed to trust any machine? They are constantly on the news saying, Russia can hack our banks. Russia can hack our military...the only thing we don't talk about that can be hacked is the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…