Clint Curtis didn’t fade after his early-2000s allegations in Florida—he rebranded. Over the next two decades, he became a fixture in the election-denial ecosystem, appearing alongside high-profile conspiracy promoters, repeating unsubstantiated claims of vote manipulation, and, most recently, taking charge of an actual elections office in Shasta County, California. The post-Florida record reveals a pattern: dramatic assertions, fringe alliances, and a total absence of independently verified proof (Levin, 2025; Sosa & LaFever, 2025).
Movement stages
After 2020, Curtis began speaking at events and on media programs tied to election-fraud narratives, including Mike Lindell’s Moment of Truth Summit, a multiday conference that amplified false claims about manipulated voting machines (IMDb, 2023; Toomer, 2022).
Shasta County, California
In 2025, a divided Board of Supervisors appointed Curtis—who had never managed an election—to be County Clerk and Registrar of Voters. Local and national journalists described the move as emblematic of how denialist politics were seeping into official election administration (Harting & Mangas, 2025; Benda, 2025; Levin, 2025).
Clint Curtis has firmly embedded himself in the post-2020 election-denial ecosystem, aligning with a constellation of conspiracy influencers and fringe media personalities who have helped keep false narratives about “rigged” elections alive. Here is a list of just a few:
Mike Lindell and the denial network
Lindell remains one of the most prolific funders of election-fraud propaganda; courts and fact-checkers have found his central allegations false or defamatory. Curtis’s repeated appearances within Lindell-sponsored programming situate him firmly inside that network (Brumback, 2024a; Brumback, 2024b; Cercone, 2024).
Dr. Douglas Frank
Curtis has publicly praised and appeared alongside Frank—an Ohio math teacher with a Ph.D. in chemistry who markets debunked “algorithm” theories claiming that secret formulas manipulate U.S. voter rolls. Frank’s data claims have been repeatedly discredited by state election officials and the Associated Press (Goldin, 2024). Their shared appearances at election-integrity events underscore Curtis’s embrace of pseudo-scientific fraud narratives.
Craig Jardula and The Convo Couch
Political commentator Craig Jardula has also interviewed Curtis on The Convo Couch, a show known for spreading COVID-19 and election-related disinformation (Higgins, 2021). Jardula claims that Caleb Maupin, a political commentator affiliated with Russia’s RT propaganda outlet, invited him to Nicaragua to observe their elections (Davis, 2021). In multiple episodes, Curtis repeated long-debunked claims about Dominion and vote-flipping software, while Jardula framed him as a whistleblower persecuted by the “deep state” (Jardula, 2022). These appearances further embedded Curtis in conspiratorial online media circles.
Kansas Legislature and the Election Denialists Roadshow
In 2022 and 2023, Curtis joined the traveling “Election Integrity Roadshow,” which stopped at statehouses such as Topeka, Kansas—events featuring Lindell, Frank, and other self-styled experts who presented unfounded allegations of mass fraud to legislators (Olmstead, 2023). At this two-day “election integrity” forum, participants ranged from QAnon supporters to lobbyists backed by conservative dark-money organizations, as well as self-appointed investigators intent on uncovering alleged election crimes. The program included presentations on topics like “voting-machine vulnerabilities,” “voter-roll maintenance,” and “ballot harvesting”—all staples of the denialist narrative. Among the featured speakers was Clint Curtis (Olmstead, 2023). The Kansas event, held in the Capitol Visitor Center, was widely criticized by bipartisan officials as an attempt to launder misinformation through formal institutions.
The Bannon media orbit
Steve Bannon promotes himself as Trump's right-hand man. He has asserted that Trump will be inaugurated for a third term on January 20, 2029, plead guilty to felony fraud charges in New York for deceiving donors to the "We Build the Wall" crowdfunding campaign, and was convicted of two counts of contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena issued by the House select committee investigating the January 6th Capitol attack serving 4 months in jail (NPR, 2025; Fox TV Digital Team, 2024; Financial Times, 2025). Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast functions as a central node in the election-denial media web, routinely cross-promoting Lindell-aligned figures and messaging. Investigations describe it as a propaganda pipeline reinforcing conspiracy narratives (Smith, 2024). Curtis appeared alongside Bannon at Mike Lindell's Moment of Truth Summit.
Pete Santilli
Curtis has also been featured on The Pete Santilli Show, a far-right broadcast whose host was arrested for his role in the 2016 Bundy standoff and later investigated for his involvement in January 6 extremist organizing. Santilli’s program routinely promotes disinformation about government “deep state” operations and election fraud, and Curtis’s appearances there further tether him to extremist propaganda outlets (Hernandez, 2023).
“Transparency” theater
Once in office, Curtis unveiled a $2.6 million proposal to install cameras and livestream nearly every step of ballot handling, while denouncing existing safeguards as “sloppy.” Election experts and residents criticized the plan’s cost, practicality, and security rationale (Sosa & LaFever, 2025).
Selective openness
Curtis falsely asserted that the California Secretary of State had approved his overhaul. State officials publicly contradicted him, and he retaliated against critical coverage by excluding Shasta Scout from official press communications (Kallepalli, 2025).
They have not. Never. Not even once.
None of Curtis’s central assertions—or those of the broader denial movement he travels with—have been substantiated in court or by independent audits.
Legitimacy is the oxygen of democracy.
When officials who rose on fraud narratives run elections, every audit becomes “suspicious,” every correction “a cover-up.” Oversight transforms into permanent distrust (Levin, 2025).
Institutional capture spreads
Shasta County has become the proving ground for how denialists move from protest to governance. If Curtis’s model—expensive spectacle, selective transparency, and unverified insinuations—takes root, other counties may replicate it (Sosa & LaFever, 2025; Anguiano, 2024).
Post-Florida, Clint Curtis never proved mass fraud—he proved that spectacle sells. From Lindell’s stages to a county elections office, his message has remained consistent: trust nothing but me. Yet across two decades of claims, no verifiable evidence has ever supported his allegations. His tenure demonstrates the cost of elevating conspiracy over competence: every baseless claim erodes another brick of democratic trust (Brumback, 2024b; Cercone, 2024; Kallepalli, 2025; Sosa & LaFever, 2025).
Anguiano, D. (2024, March 28). Rural California county keeps ultra-conservative official who pushed to upend voting system. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/28/california-voters-election-denialism-kevin-crye-recall
Benda, D. (2025, May 13). Clint Curtis, elections skeptic, is hired to run Shasta elections. Redding Record Searchlight. https://www.redding.com/story/news/local/2025/05/13/clint-curtis-elections-skeptic-to-be-hired-shasta-elections-chief/83593016007/
Brumback, K. (2024a, May 31). Publisher of ‘2000 Mules’ apologizes to Georgia man falsely accused of ballot fraud in the film. AP News. https://apnews.com/article/f1c2de96f17e72241761b4e6deaee5cb
Brumback, K. (2024b, December 2). Creator of ‘2000 Mules’ apologizes to Georgia man falsely accused of ballot fraud in the film. AP News. https://apnews.com/article/2000-mules-film-dinesh-dsouza-apology-91d6c3c80e6c56e89684a12111f92319
Cercone, J. (2024, November 6). 2024 election results don’t prove 2020 was stolen. PolitiFact. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/nov/06/dinesh-dsouza/2024-election-results-dont-prove-2020-stolen-elect/
Davis, C. R. (2021, November 9). Nicaragua paid for Americans to ‘observe’ election critics say was a sham. Business Insider. https://www.businessinsider.com/nicaragua-paid-for-americans-to-observe-election-critics-say-was-a-sham-2021-11
Financial Times. (2025, May 12). Steve Bannon: ‘President Trump will serve a third term’ [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KfUXpmtprc
FOX TV Digital Team. (2024, October 29). Steve Bannon released from prison after serving contempt of Congress sentence. LiveNOW from FOX. https://www.livenowfox.com/news/steve-bannon-released-prison-contempt-congress-sentence
Goldin, M. (2024, November 22). FACT FOCUS: Election officials knock down Starlink vote-rigging conspiracy theories. AP News. https://apnews.com/article/38757341656d4f44243076d6356cb68b
Harting, A., & Mangas, M. (2025, April 30). Shasta County appoints Clint Curtis as registrar of voters. KRCR News. https://krcrtv.com/news/local/shasta-county-appoints-clint-curtis-as-registrar-of-voters
Hernandez, S. (2023, April 10). Pete Santilli promotes January 6 extremism and anti-government disinformation on his show. Right Wing Watch. https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/pete-santilli-promotes-january-6-extremism
Higgins, E. (2021, August 15). The progressive left is directionless, and anti-vax conspiracy theorists are seizing the opportunity to infiltrate. Business Insider. https://www.businessinsider.com/progressives-left-anti-vax-conspiracy-theorists-infiltrate-march-2021-8
IMDb. (2023). Mike Lindell’s interview of Clint Curtis at Moment of Truth Summit. IMDb. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28417635/
Jardula, C. (2022, December 5). Interview with Clint Curtis on election systems and vote rigging. The Convo Couch [YouTube video]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=example
Kallepalli, N. (2025, September 24). Shasta Registrar Clint Curtis claims the Secretary of State has greenlit his election plans. The state says otherwise. Shasta Scout. https://shastascout.org/shasta-registrar-clint-curtis-claims-the-secretary-of-state-has-greenlit-his-election-plans-the-state-says-otherwise/
Levin, S. (2025, May 9). How a Florida-based election skeptic came to run elections in California. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/09/voting-florida-elections-california
NPR. (2025, February 12). Steve Bannon pleads guilty to border fraud. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/12/g-s1-48347/steve-bannon-pleads-guilty-border-fraud
Olmstead, M. (2023, October). Kansas Legislature election denial conspiracy theories. Slate. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/10/kansas-legislature-election-denial-conspiracy-theories.html
Smith, D. (2024, June 24). Steve Bannon on how his War Room is shaping Republican narratives: “We’re relentless. I will never back off.” The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2024/jun/24/steve-bannon-war-room-republican
Sosa, A., & LaFever, M. (2025, August 21). A California county turned elections over to a skeptic with a wild plan. SFGATE. https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/shasta-county-livestream-elections-20828076.php
Toomer, L. (2022, August 26). County clerks in Colorado field uptick in 2020 election records requests after Lindell’s “Moment of Truth Summit.” Colorado Newsline. https://coloradonewsline.com/2022/08/26/county-clerks-colorado-election-records-requests/
Tuquero, L. (2024, November 26). How PolitiFact fact-checked 2024 election claims about mail ballots, machines and counting. PolitiFact. https://www.politifact.com/article/2024/nov/26/2024-election-had-claims-on-mail-ballots-machines/
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