The California Supreme Court ordered Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco to return the over 650,000 ballots he seized in February to county election officials on Thursday, delivering a blow to his goal of investigating alleged election fraud in a November 2025 election.
The Republican sheriff and former 2026 gubernatorial candidate seized the over half a million county ballots after a local election integrity group warned about a possible 45,000-vote discrepancy in the county’s vote count on California’s Proposition 50 ballots. Riverside County voted in favor of the redistricting ballot initiative by about 80,000 votes, according to local outlets, which is larger than the alleged discrepancy.
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