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Normally an election to set up a fire district and fill one school board seat in a county with just 112,000 registered voters wouldn’t get statewide attention.

The California Secretary of State is accepting public comment on proposed regulations, some of which outline the procedures to hand-count ballots. Those changes are targeted at Shasta County, where an increasingly conservative majority on the board of supervisors voted to start hand-counting future election results.