Shasta County Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis has released explosive security footage that he says shows longtime Elections Office employees deliberately bypassing badge readers to enter secure election rooms without leaving their names in the official access logs.
Now, instead of aggressively investigating the alleged security breaches, county bureaucrats have publicly rebuked Curtis, employee unions have issued votes of no confidence, and the embattled election official is facing demands that he resign.
According to reporting by Elisa Ballard of Shasta Unfiltered, the footage, presented by Curtis during an August 19 appearance on Catherine Engelbrecht’s True the Vote podcast, shows one employee sliding a card through a double-door entry to unlock a secure room while another stands guard.
Employees are reportedly required to enter using their individual security badges, creating a record containing the employee’s name and the time of entry.
Curtis said that after taking over as Registrar of Voters in 2025, he reviewed the electronic access logs and discovered hundreds of entries in which no employee name appeared.
He now believes the video explains the disturbing gaps.
Employees, Curtis alleges, were intentionally bypassing the badge readers so their identities would not appear in the official room-entry records.
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