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Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a candidate for governor, had seized ballots from a 2025 special election based on unsubstantiated claims of election irregularities.
The California Supreme Court ordered a local sheriff on Wednesday to halt an investigation into the 2025 election that prompted him to seize more than 650,000 ballots from a local election office.
The sheriff, Chad Bianco, a Republican from Riverside County and a candidate for governor, opened the probe into last year’s special election in late February after a group of election activists claimed that vote tallies did not match the number of ballots received. Local authorities swiftly debunked the report.
But Mr. Bianco continued to pursue his investigation, seizing more election materials in late March over the objections of the attorney general of California and the secretary of state, both of whom claimed Mr. Bianco’s efforts were based on unsubstantiated claims and risked undermining faith in elections.
This was noting more cheap political theater for Bianco. He never had the authority to demand the ballots in first place, he even so far as to say the California State Supreme Count had no authority to stop him. What really hurts him now is that Trump did not even endorse him.
The California Supreme Court ordered a local sheriff on Wednesday to halt an investigation into the 2025 election that prompted him to seize more than 650,000 ballots from a local election office.
The sheriff, Chad Bianco, a Republican from Riverside County and a candidate for governor, opened the probe into last year’s special election in late February after a group of election activists claimed that vote tallies did not match the number of ballots received. Local authorities swiftly debunked the report.
But Mr. Bianco continued to pursue his investigation, seizing more election materials in late March over the objections of the attorney general of California and the secretary of state, both of whom claimed Mr. Bianco’s efforts were based on unsubstantiated claims and risked undermining faith in elections.
This was noting more cheap political theater for Bianco. He never had the authority to demand the ballots in first place, he even so far as to say the California State Supreme Count had no authority to stop him. What really hurts him now is that Trump did not even endorse him.
