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Most California elections will be forced to use state-approved machines to count ballots under new legislation that responds to an attempt by a conservative county in Northern California to try and hand-count future elections.

Because voting machines are perfect and nothing could go wrong, right?

The bill, AB 969, got a final vote Friday and is awaiting signature by the governor.

This is totally how you strengthen democracy.

Shasta County voted to cancel its contract for voting machines with Dominion Voting Systems and instead, hand count ballots in all future elections. The county expected to count ballots by hand for its next election on Nov. 7.

The Democrat Legislature essentially voted to stop Shasta County officials from using a hand count to tally votes. The bill would only allow hand counts by local election with fewer than 1,000 eligible registered voters and special elections where there are fewer than 5,000 eligible voters.

Because it is not suspicious at all when Democrats force a rural Republican area to count votes the way they want, and actively make laws preventing hand counts. There is really nothing to see here.

Shasta County Board of Supervisors chair Patrick Henry Jones said Friday the county would sue to block the bill should Newsom sign it. He said state officials “cannot guarantee that these machines haven’t been manipulated.”

“The state is now attempting to block us from being able to have a free and fair election without any outside influence,” he said.

“Doing something like a full hand count in a sizable jurisdiction is not the way to put those conspiracy theories to rest,” said Gowri Ramachandran, deputy director of the democracy program at the Brennan Center for Justice. “It’s a way to waste a lot of money and potentially create chaos.”

You mean the way we use to control elections for most of American history? You mean that way?

And Shasta County is also a very small county, it's not like it’s Los Angeles County. It currently has 111,000 registered voters, and the largest city is Redding with a population of 93,000 people.

Just like any computer system, these computers are susceptible to bugs and programming errors, machine breakdowns that cause long lines, flip votes, and more.

Remember in Nov. when Arizona's most populous county reported issues in 60 out of 223 voting centers? Well, that had everything to do with computer error and nothing to do with human error.

Here are just SOME of the MANY times voting software has failed:

In 2012, voting machines mistakenly awarded two Wellington Village Council seats to candidates who were found in a post-election audit to have lost their races.

In 2008, a small county in California discovered that its tabulation software dropped 197 paper ballots from the totals at one precinct. The system's audit log also appears to have deleted any sign that the ballots had ever been recorded.

In 2007, Princeton Researchers found that "Malicious software could cause votes to be recorded incorrectly or to be miscounted, possibly altering election results. It could also prevent voting machines from accepting votes, potentially causing long lines or disenfranchising voters."

And look at this 2010 article from CNN about the 2010 midterm election that noted, "Within 36 hours of the system going live, our team had found and exploited a vulnerability that gave us almost total control of the server software, including the ability to change votes and reveal voters' secret ballots," Alex Halderman, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan said.

The point is, voting machines cause problems all the time. And for democrats to claim this will “stop conspiracy theories” is just ridiculous.

Don’t let Democrats gaslight you. Electronic voting machines actually put democracy at risk and that never used to be a partisan issue.

I think it's safe to say that when it comes to voting machines, "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong."