More than half a million ballots seized by top GOP candidate in California governor's race

[Zorro]

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who is a leading Republican candidate for governor, has seized more than 650,000 ballots from last November’s election and is investigating whether they were fraudulently counted.

“This investigation is simple: Physically count the ballots and compare that result with the total votes recorded,” Bianco said at a news conference Friday.

The unusual probe drew a sharp rebuke from California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta, who said in a statement Friday that it is “unprecedented in both scope and scale” and appears “not to be based on facts or evidence.” “There is no indication, anywhere in the United States, of widespread voter fraud,” Bonta said. “Counts, recounts, hand counts, audits, and court cases all support this.”

According to Bonta’s office, Bianco’s department on Feb. 26 seized about 1,000 boxes of ballot materials in Riverside County related to the November election for Proposition 50, which temporarily redrew the state’s congressional districts to favor Democrats in response to partisan redistricting in Republican states, including Texas.

The sheriff said his investigators are looking into allegations by a local citizens group that “did their own audit” and found that the county’s tally was falsely inflated by more than 45,000 votes — a claim that local election officials have rejected.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-03-21/riverside-county-sheriff-chad-bianco-seizes-more-than-half-million-ballots

[AZJonnie]

1. Those of us in AZ remember the "Cyber Ninjas", GQP cronies who had no idea what a massive undertaking it is

to do a recount of millions of votes, in a way that complies with proper chain of custody for ballots.

In the end, they had to admit that, after their massive audit, Biden should've gotten a handful MORE votes than he did, not less. And Cyber Ninjas ended up LOSING a bunch of money and disbanding, because of course they did.

Dipshit Sheriff Chad Bianco is about to find out the hard way that ETTD

[johnnyfins]

2. Why do I feel like we will be hearing about

many more of these "investigations" in the run up to 26 and 28?

ALL will be done by GOP horseshitters.

[Initech]

3. What the fuck is this dipshit hoping to prove, exactly?

[Zorro]

4. He's pandering to the MAGA base hoping they'll help him win the governor's race

and it just might happen with all the Democratic candidates running and diluting the total vote count.

[Initech]

5. And also he's doing this to get airtime on Fox, that's it.

It's a publicity stunt and that's it. It will prove absolutely nothing. But it gets Bianco in the Fox News cycle and will elevate him over Steve Hilton. 100% he will have an interview scheduled on Hannity tomorrow night.

[IcyPeas]

6. He reminds me of Greg Bovino that little ICE gestapo terrorist. Bio:

Oh, and look at his photo in the link.

He was a member of the Oath Keepers. And made donations to them. (From Wikipedia)

Sounds like a total schmuck.

Chad Bianco was elected Sheriff, Coroner, and Public Administrator of Riverside County in the November 6, 2018, general election. In June 2022, he was re-elected to his second term. He is a thirty-year veteran of the Sheriff's Office. As Sheriff, he serves as the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of Riverside County.

Sheriff Bianco oversees the County's five jail facilities, six court buildings, a civil bureau, the Coroner's Bureau, Public Administrator's Office, twelve patrol stations, seventeen contract cities, 4,200 dedicated employees and an operating budget of just over one billion dollars.

Sheriff Bianco is a member of the California State Coroners' Association, National Sheriffs' Association, Western States Sheriffs' Association and is on the Board of Directors for the California State Sheriffs' Association and Major County Sheriff's of America Association.

https://www.riversidesheriff.org/689/Sheriff-Chad-Bianco

[Celerity]

7. Choad Bianco