CA-GOV: Sheriff in California Seizes More Ballots, Ignoring State Attorney General
A Republican sheriff who is running for governor of California this week escalated his investigation into unsubstantiated claims of irregularities in a 2025 statewide election, according to new court documents. His actions, which included seizing a second tranche of election materials, drew sharp rebukes from the state’s top law enforcement and election officials.
Chad Bianco, the sheriff of Riverside County, seized 426 boxes of ballot materials on Tuesday, adding to the even larger tranche of 650,000 cast ballots he took last month, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday by California’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, a Democrat. Mr. Bonta petitioned the court to halt Mr. Bianco’s investigation, which he said has not identified any crimes.
Mr. Bianco opened the investigation after an outside group of activists, called the Riverside Election Integrity Team, claimed to have found that more ballots were counted than the number of votes cast. Local election officials later debunked those findings, according to court documents — explaining in a public meeting that, among other errors, the group had relied on raw data, which is prone to human error, rather than what the officials described as “actual processed votes.”
The results in question pertain to the vote last year for Proposition 50, which asked California voters whether they wanted to allow Democrats to redraw the state’s congressional districts in response to the nationwide redistricting war Republicans set off in Texas earlier that year. The measure passed overwhelmingly, meaning Mr. Bianco’s efforts have little chance of affecting the outcome.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/us/politics/california-sheriff-ballots-attorney-general.html
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