Here’s The Evidence

Written by Margaret Cantrell

I keep hearing from people who speak that there is no evidence of election fraud in Shasta County and now I'm hearing it from a commission member. So, I decided ! would share my personal experiences of discovering election fraud in Shasta County.

Point of information: voter rolls are managed at the state level, not locally.

In July, I canvassed with a friend checking addresses where a particular person voted yet the Postal Service's database said they had moved out of state. Two addresses were very interesting. In Shasta Lake City we went to a street that was two blocks long ending in a cul--sac. The highest number in the cul-desac was 2489. Yet the address we had was 2536. It was fraudulent, but a vote came from that address. In Palo Cedro the address we had was 19,000 something. The first number on that street was 21 ,OOO something and the addresses went up from there. It, too, was a fraudulent registration and a vote came from that address. (Sometimes they call those phantom or ghost voters because there is no real human being associated with the registration.)

What does that mean? It means that if you voted yes on measure A and either these two frauds voted no on measure A, your vote would be null and void;, they would not count. You would have been disenfranchised. Dear reader, check out how you would feel about not having your vote count.

Two years ago, I participated in a canvas of 2020 voter registrations. We found 384 fraudulent registrations. They were businesses, not residences, and no one lived there. 5 names were registered at a machine shop. The owner did not know anyone by those names and they had all vited. A number were registered at a motel on Bechelli Lane—a motel that does not rent long term—and every one of them had voted. That means that 384 Shasta County citizens were disenfranchised. Their votes were null and void. Those people literally didn't count.

After the March 5^th primary the county issued the Statement of the Vote, a 715 page document with every statistic and explanation you could possibly want. Also available to buy is the Ballot Tracking Data.

I compiled a comparison of the vote data for the five districts. What it showed is that there were 515 votes with no voter registration associated with them: 166 in District 2, 115 in District 1, 86 in District 3, 82 in District 4. There were none in District 5 because their was no local race in that district. 515 Shasta County citizens were disenfranchised, Their votes were null and void. They did not count.

Remember how you felt earlier when your vote in Palo Cedro and Shasta Lake City didn't count?

901 fraudulent votes. 901 disenfranchised Shasta County citizens.

*Margaret Cantrell is the retired owner, editor and publisher of Encouraging Word Publishing Services (mceditor.com). She has a Masters in Social Work, specializing in human behavior, as well as many teaching credentials.  Margaret has an abiding passion for election integrity—so that every honest vote is counted and every fraudulent vote is not. She is a member of the Shasta Election Task Force.