California Sheriff Seizes Ballots in Election Probe

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who’s running to be the next California governor, has seized more than half a million ballots from a November 2025 special election on redistricting, triggering a political and legal confrontation with state officials. Bianco obtained the ballots with a court-approved warrant in February as part of what he described as an investigation into an alleged discrepancy between ballot logs and official vote totals. The dispute centers on Riverside County, an inland region east of Los Angeles with roughly 2.5 million residents, where Bianco has twice been elected sheriff. “Investigations into irregularities must happen so that the public can have full confidence,” he said in a March 22 post on X....