{"id":41044,"date":"2025-05-09T14:17:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T14:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/how-a-florida-based-election-skeptic-came-to-run-elections-in-california\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T14:17:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T14:17:54","slug":"how-a-florida-based-election-skeptic-came-to-run-elections-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/how-a-florida-based-election-skeptic-came-to-run-elections-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Florida-based election skeptic came to run elections in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clint Curtis, who once claimed to build vote-flipping software, will now lead elections in a conservative county<\/p>\n<p>Clint Curtis is a familiar face among election skeptics in the United States. The Florida-based lawyer and former computer programmer has said he once developed a software that could change votes. He opposes the use of voting machines and highlights his connection to proponents of election conspiracy theories, including Mike Lindell and Steve Bannon.<\/p>\n<p>Soon he is slated to start overseeing elections in Shasta county, California, a conservative region of 180,000 people in the state\u2019s far north where Republicans vastly outnumber Democrats.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/09\/voting-florida-elections-california\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clint Curtis, who once claimed to build vote-flipping software, will now lead elections in a conservative county Clint Curtis is a familiar face among election skeptics in the United States. The Florida-based lawyer and former computer programmer has said he once developed a software that could change votes. He opposes the use of voting machines &#8230; <a title=\"How a Florida-based election skeptic came to run elections in California\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/09\/how-a-florida-based-election-skeptic-came-to-run-elections-in-california\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How a Florida-based election skeptic came to run elections in California\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}