California county on edge over bid to recall far-right, election-denying official

Shasta county voters in Redding, California, in February. The far-right movement has become prominent in this part of northern California. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images

On Super Tuesday, voters in northern California’s Shasta county weighed the fate of a far-right official who promoted conspiracy theories that elections were being rigged and backed a controversial effort to do away with voting machines and pursue a hand-count system.

But two weeks after the election, the recall remains too close to call, with the Shasta county supervisor Kevin Crye maintaining a hold of his seat by less than 50 votes. As of Friday, the county elections office still had 1,200 ballots to process and residents are anxiously awaiting results.