CA-GOV: Search warrants show California ballot seizure echoed Fulton County election raid

[RandySF]

Newly unsealed search warrants in the California ballot seizure case paint a chilling picture of how the types of anti-voting conspiracy theories weaponized by the White House to investigate the 2020 presidential election can be used to target elections on a state and local level.

They also show that the local sheriff’s department took up election fraud claims pushed by anti-voting activists, including one woman involved in a movement to secede from California.

In February, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco seized 650,000 ballots from the state’s 2025 redistricting election following reports of a large discrepancy between ballots cast and counted. The county registrar said that figure stems from anti-voting activists misunderstanding raw election data.

In March, Bianco announced the seizure and his intent to conduct a recount of the ballots. But how the sheriff legally justified taking the ballots remained unclear until Wednesday, when a judge ordered the search warrants unsealed.



https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/search-warrants-show-california-ballot-seizure-echoed-fulton-county-election-raid/

[IcyPeas]

1. Chad Bianco is ahead in the California governors race... %#?*@&?

Trump endorsed Hilton (a former fox news host) hopefully that'll be the kiss of death. My fellow Californians better wake up.

But the fact that bianco has even gotten this far is sickening.

California Democrats are spending six figures on a tracking poll to gauge how gubernatorial candidates from both parties are faring in the leadup to the primary.

The latest poll of 1,200 likely voters, conducted via phone between March 31 and Sunday, found Hilton and Bianco tied at 14%.
That’s a change from the first poll conducted from March 12-17, which had Hilton at 16% and Bianco at 14%. Further clouding the results, the poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.83 percentage points.

Rep. Eric Swalwell was the highest-polling Democratic candidate at 12%, an improvement of 2 percentage points from the first poll.
He’s followed by Democratic billionaire and environmentalist Tom Steyer at 11%, up 1 percentage point from the last poll. Democrat and former Rep. Katie Porter of Orange County came in at 7%, down 3 percentage points from March.

https://www.pressenterprise.com/2026/04/07/chad-bianco-steve-hilton-still-lead-poll-of-california-governor-hopefuls/

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