Behind a sheriff's seizure of over half a million ballots: 'Research' from election conspiracy theorists
The California sheriff who seized nearly 650,000 ballots from November’s special redistricting election was working off a tip from a citizen-led “election integrity” group with a history of questioning vote totals.
The Riverside, California group also claimed that the 2024 election in the county had nearly 34,000 more votes counted than cast.
The county’s registrar has said the group misunderstood the data it was looking at.
On Friday, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a Republican who is running for governor, said his office launched an investigation into the November special election after receiving a complaint from the Riverside Election Integrity Team (REIT) — a coalition of self-described “concerned Riverside County citizens dedicated to upholding Article IV, Section 4 of the United States Constitution.”
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