So if it was unlawful why does he still have a job and why isn't he in prison? Anyone else would get a perp walk, to "show" the attempted election fraud.
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Meanwhile, a citizen would seize 650,000 bank notes from a bank and get 25 years in prison... the hypocrisy is real in the American 'justice' system.
So… was that the test run to see how long the ballots could be witheld before they actually get released?
Because that was half a million ballots last year, and he’s still got them.
I doubt it
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco in February seized approximately 650,000 ballots from a November 2025 special election
It isn’t good or okay but seizing ballots after they’ve been counted, tallied and several months have gone by wouldn’t do much against the initiative would it?
No, but they could be disappeared so that when the vote tally is changed after the fact, it can't be verified or recounted.
Sure, but a couple of months after? And if that was th le case it backfired because now there’s case law precedent that shows:
The Court has now made clear that this kind of defiance cannot stand, that the Attorney General has the authority to intervene when sheriffs take improper action, and that voted ballots belong in the custody of elections officials
And
Newsom on Saturday signed a bill that would prevent anyone from seizing ballots, as Bianco did.
Seems more like a MAGA targeted campaign stunt:
At the time of the ballots’ seizure, Bianco was one of two prominent Republicans running for governor in a crowded June primary. He did not advance to the general election and later announced plans to run for reelection as sheriff in 2028.
If it’s tried again in California it’ll be interesting to see if charges/penalties are applied.
Tomorrow we'll find out he accidentally used them as kindling in his fireplace.
If he's not sitting in jail for breaking the law, he's just going to do it again.
What the hell, that's not just election interference, that's treason.
Well technically it didn't interfere with any elections, they were already counted and the election ended a month before he took them.
It just interferes with record keeping and if he shares the records then he violates the constitution and opens himself to lawsuits.
Ah Riverside, the asshole of California
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