Shasta Clerk and Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis' recent announcement urging voters to save the county money by either dropping off or mailing their ballot for the Nov. 4 special election raised questions about who pays the cost for postage.

“Voters may return ballots by mail and the postage is paid for by the state, not the county,” Curtis said in a statement issued Thursday, Oct. 9.

Curtis is right in this case because the election is being triggered by California's initiative Proposition 50, which asks whether to approve temporary redrawing of congressional lines in response to Texas' partisan redistricting.

That's not the case with every election, Siskiyou County Registrar of Voters Laura Bynum said. Special state elections, like the one on Nov. 4 to decide Prop 50, "are typically

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