California Supervisor asks MyPillow CEO for money in case they are sued for voting changes

SHASTA COUNTY, Calif. — The attempt by Shasta County Supervisors to return to a hand counting system for paper ballots is getting national attention. This week, Supervisor Kevin Crye reported that he'd reached out to MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell.

Supervisor Crye made the announcement during Tuesday's marathon meeting, saying he called Mike Lindell and he made note of it on his online "Lindell Report."

"So, I get a call, yesterday, by Kevin Crye...he calls me up. They decided that, two of them—it's two-to-two; there's five of them that vote—to get rid of the machines altogether," Lindell said during his "Lindell Report." "Kevin says, 'You know what, Mike?' He called me up, he reached out to me, and he said, 'Mike,' you know, 'can you tell me about this stuff?'"

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KRCR asked Supervisor Crye about it and he says it was a simple request to ask Lindell if he was willing to pay for legal help should the county, or the supervisors, be sued over the hand counting pilot program that would include provisions for disabled voters.

"I had the idea and that's all it was," Supervisor Crye told KRCR on Thursday. "It was just an idea to call Mike Lindell and give him my vocation. As an agent, in reaching out to businesses and corporations, I was able to get ahold of him and I just flat-out asked him, I said, 'this is who I am; this is what I'm doing. Would you be interested in putting up money—and I would need it in an escrow account—to fight any kind of lawsuit, maybe, that would come against us from an entity that would either be our own government or an individual with, possibly, HAVA?'"

HAVA is the federal "Help America Vote Act" requiring voting access for everyone including people who would not be able to use a paper ballot.

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