The California legislature passed a bill Friday that would ban hand-counting ballots in most elections. The bill was targeted directly at Shasta County in the far northern part of the state.

A federal judge has tossed a lawsuit intended to end mail voting and electronic voting tabulation in Oregon, saying 鈥済eneralized grievances鈥� about the state鈥檚 elections aren鈥檛 enough to give a group of unsuccessful Republican candidates and other election deniers standing to sue.

A decision earlier this year by Shasta County supervisors to upend their elections system has drawn the attention of California lawmakers.

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.

Four candidates endorsed by the Josephine County Republican party all appear to have won elections for seats on the non-partisan board of Grants Pass School District 7.

The vote in Ashland to redirect the city鈥檚 tax on prepared foods and restaurant meals to fund parks is hanging by a thread. As of Wednesday morning, the measure is being narrowly rejected by voters, with just 40 votes separating the two sides.

Ashland voters are deciding on a change to their special tax on all prepared foods in the city. The May 16 ballot measure has drawn lots of heated debate from both sides.

After months of confusion about how Shasta County will conduct its elections, county supervisors approved a new company to provide their voting equipment on Thursday. That鈥檚 in addition to an effort to hand-count ballots.

After ditching Dominion Voting Systems in January, Shasta County still doesn鈥檛 have a clear way to conduct elections. The county鈥檚 Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday to try hand counting every ballot.

Claims of election fraud have been increasing since the 2020 election, and they鈥檙e having an impact on the upcoming midterm elections in November.

The bill would amend the Electoral Count Act, which legal experts have called vague and confusing. The legislation is similar to a somewhat narrower bill from a bipartisan group of senators.

Supervisors in Shasta County have finally put to rest claims of fraud in the 2020 election.