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Byline: Marjie Lundstrom
Sep. 17--REDDING, Calif.--It was E-minus-21 -- exactly three weeks before California's historic recall election originally was scheduled -- and poll workers in Shasta County were taking no chances.
If political campaigns were thrown into a tizzy this week by the prospect of a delay, this Northern California county intends to be good and ready.
Whenever the election comes.
Shasta County, with Redding as its seat, is the one place in all of California facing an especially daunting election task: switching its 87,364 registered voters, virtually overnight, to touch-screen voting machines.
This is the same high-tech switch that embarrassed Florida all over again in September 2002 when the state's nice new, $32 million touch-screen voting machines chewed up ballots, stumped poll workers and sent…