Interview identification
Suggested title:Election Integrity, Voting Systems & the SAVE America Act — Bob Rust Interviews Clint Curtis
Date: Saturday, August 8, 2026
Host/Interviewer: Robert N. “Bob” Rust — USA Citizens Network
Interviewee: Clint Curtis, Esq.
Format: Remote video interview
Approximate duration: 28:48
Bob Rust — brief bio
Rust describes himself as a semi-retired attorney who spent 56 years in Pennsylvania before recently relocating to the Atlanta, Georgia area. He hosts interviews for USA Citizens Network, which he describes as providing a forum for credentialed speakers on subjects including election integrity, medical independence, and education.
Clint Curtis — brief bio
Rust introduces Curtis as an attorney and computer programmer with decades of involvement in election-integrity issues and prior programming work for major organizations including NASA. During the interview, Curtis says he is serving as Registrar of Voters in Shasta County, California, where he describes implementing a system that records ballots on camera before machine tabulation so the public can independently review them.
Interview summary
The discussion centers on Curtis’s concerns about electronic voting systems and his proposed safeguards. He describes the Shasta County ballot-recording procedure, argues that election integrity should be considered a national-security issue, discusses hand counting and election costs, raises concerns about foreign hardware/software and networking vulnerabilities, and discusses the SAVE America Act and mail-in ballots. The interview closes with Curtis advocating public review of ballots as a check on machine tabulation and discussing issues he says his office is investigating in Shasta County.
Strong timestamped quotes
Because several of Curtis’s statements are disputed factual claims, I would present them explicitly as Curtis’s statements, not as independently established facts.
Speaker
Quote
01:04
Clint Curtis
“Well, I am the registrar of voters in Shasta County.”
01:48
Clint Curtis
“We actually take every ballot and show it on camera prior to it going through the machine.”
03:43
Clint Curtis
“…they should be there to defend the voter against the system.”
05:42
Clint Curtis
“It’s definitely a national security…”
14:18
Clint Curtis
“…if it’s not connected to the internet, it’s safe. That is completely wrong.”
16:51
Clint Curtis
“If you videotape all of your ballots and you give [them to the citizens]…”
20:00
Clint Curtis
“In 2018, the Netherlands…” — beginning of his discussion of the Netherlands and election-system security.
24:08
Clint Curtis
“You’ve got to watch your people, even if you trust ’em…”
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