Shasta County, California Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis is replacing Assistant Registrar Brent Turner with Tina Peters next month, as confirmed in a text message from Curtis to Action News Now.
Under county policy, the assistant registrar steps into the top job on an interim basis if the registrar leaves before the end of the term. The Board of Supervisors would then choose a temporary replacement.
Last week, Curtis was censured in a 3-1 Board of Supervisors vote after two investigations found he had engaged in managerial misconduct that included threats of physical violence toward staff, creating a hostile work environment, verbal abuse, and retaliation. Curtis flatly rejects every finding, calling all of it untrue and insisting the complaints came from disgruntled employees and supporters of his election opponent who were trying to sabotage him and take back control of the elections office.
Peters, the former Mesa County, Colorado clerk, was convicted on seven counts of election interference in August 2024. She received a nine-year prison sentence that Colorado’s governor later commuted.
