California Sheriff Seized 650,000 Ballots for Hand-Recount, but Forced to Pause After AG Legal Challenges
Facts Matter
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 8 April 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
A sheriff in Riverside County, California, seized over 600,000 ballots that were cast in a 2025 special election, after ballot irregularities were reported to his office. Let's discuss what that election was about, what the reported irregularities were, how the hand-count was going, and what the response has been from the California State government.
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| 0:00.0 | Moving along now to the topic of election integrity, there is a sheriff over in California |
| 0:05.7 | who's in a bit of a Mexican standoff with the state government right now. |
| 0:10.1 | His name is Chad Bianco, and he's the sheriff of Riverside County, which is directly east |
| 0:14.4 | of LA. |
| 0:15.4 | And in February of this year, Sheriff Bianco seized over 600,000 ballots that were cast in a 2025 special election. |
| 0:23.9 | Quote, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who is running to be the next California governor, |
| 0:28.9 | has seized more than half a million ballots from a November 2025 special election on redistricting, |
| 0:34.7 | triggering a political and legal confrontation with state officials. |
| 0:38.8 | Now, the backstory here was fascinating, and so please do smash those like and subscribe |
| 0:43.0 | buttons, strap in, and let's get right into it. In November of 2025, California statewide |
| 0:49.1 | held a special election. It was a ballot measure called California Proposition 50, and it asked the voters a simple |
| 0:55.9 | yes or no question, whether or not the state should redraw its congressional map. You see, at the time, |
| 1:01.5 | Texas had recently redrawn their map, giving them an additional five Republican districts, |
| 1:06.7 | and so Californians were asked if they should do the same for Democrats. And they did. |
| 1:11.5 | Proposition 50, it ultimately passed with 64% of Californians voting in favor of it. |
| 1:16.8 | Quote, the new map was designed to boost the number of seats for Democrats in the 26 midterm elections. |
| 1:22.7 | Proposition 50 passed with nearly 64% of the vote and could send up to five additional Democratic representatives |
| 1:29.1 | to Congress. And so, very good. Getting 64% of the vote meant that this was a very popular issue. |
| 1:35.8 | Even in Riverside County, which is more conservative leaning compared to the rest of California, |
| 1:40.7 | Proposition 50 got 56% of the vote. However, over at Riverside County, a local watchdog group |
| 1:47.3 | found something to be amiss. A group of volunteers called the Riverside Election Integrity Team, |
| 1:52.6 | they looked at the public records of the local registrar's office, and they claim to have found |
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