Overview
- Peters’ lawyer said she has not accepted any formal position with the county and that discussions about assisting with ballot-authenticity work produced no hire, a development reported Tuesday.
- Shasta County registrar Clint Curtis had publicly said he planned to bring Peters on as a consultant to help supervise the November election but acknowledged she had not taken a formal post.
- California Gov. Gavin Newsom has directed corrections officials to try to reject a transfer of Peters’ parole supervision into the state and Secretary of State Shirley Weber’s office is monitoring the county for legal compliance.
- Curtis’ recent actions — including sealing primary ballots in the elections office, his formal censure by the county Board of Supervisors, and calls for FBI review — have already raised questions about local election management.
- Peters was convicted in 2024 for copying Mesa County voting-machine software, had her sentence commuted and was released in June 2026, and experts say paper backups and post-election audits are the standard checks that catch machine problems.