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    In red California, election deniers rant about fraud and promise they won't go away

    by Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times Nov 10, 2022 6 minutes
    Cathy Darling Allen, the County Clerk and Registrar of Voters in Shasta County, California, outside the Shasta County Clerk and Elections office in Redding on Nov. 7, 2022.

    REDDING, Calif. — A cold rain poured outside as Patty Plumb stood before the Shasta County Board of Supervisors on Election Day and — with a warm smile and a chipper voice — warned that the local voting system is rigged.

    Plumb had conducted a "citizen's audit" of the local voting rolls a few months ago, knocking on doors in search of fraud.

    Dead people had cast ballots, she insisted, along with people who didn't live in the county. Then there were the electronic voting machines, which Plumb claimed are all connected to the internet and easily hacked by nefarious people.

    "The machines need to be turned off, unplugged, melted down and turned into prison bars," Plumb, 61, said in an interview.

    The midterm elections came to this bitterly divided country with a storm of conspiracy theories, bolstered by former President Donald Trump and fanned by allies who support his lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

    In this mostly rural

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