Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who is a leading Republican candidate for governor, has seized more than 650,000 ballots from last November’s election and is investigating whether they were fraudulently counted.
“This investigation is simple: Physically count the ballots and compare that result with the total votes recorded,” Bianco said at a news conference Friday.
The unusual probe drew a sharp rebuke from California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta, who said in a statement Friday that it is “unprecedented in both scope and scale” and appears “not to be based on facts or evidence.”
Is this all because trump brutally raped those girls?
You know it.
Anything to sow doubts about the election! Tax payers are funding this, of course.
Its really sad that killing cops would not meaningfully fix any of our many many problems, because it would be so easy.
I have the stupid and cannot follow your logic. Why or why not? Easy, duh, we have numbers, but like my brain says short term it causes way more problems than it might solve
Does California not have state troopers? Shouldn’t they be arresting the guy? For tampering with evidence if it’s a real investigation. For stealing public records otherwise.
Seems like state law enforcement might need to raid Chad Bianco’s house.
that implies state troopers don’t like what he’s doing
Normalizing actions like this so when he loses he can seize the ballots and claim what he wants as the election result
If you call 911 for BS, you may end up in legal trouble and have to pay a hefty fine for wasting resources.
Why the hell are these GOP cucks continuing to call every election they lose a fake and waste resources on this?
Because it’s not just about their race. It’s about all future races. It’s about convincing people that the election process can’t be trusted.
The sad thing is…that it’s working.
If we can’t vote, we don’t have to pay taxes. Right?
You still get to vote, even Russia goes through that charade.
Sucks that just killing thembefore they kill us wouldnt fix any of this. It would be such a simple fix if it worked.
Because it’s right out of the Russian playbook to subvert elections, sow discord and disrupt institutions of democracy.
You mean like found in The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia?
We saw why in 2020. If there’s distrust, a certain side will have a tendency towards violence to get their way, results be damned.
Sneak preview of November
There needs to be a law that candidates cannot do their own election investigations or seize anything whatsoever or in any way tread upon the election process, it belongs to the people not the candidates. They can and will use established methods for challenging elections or suffer the consequences of becoming a felon.
They already sort of are and that’s a good thing. The way some elections work is there’s a representative from both parties observing and counting the ballots. Then they can both check each other’s work and make sure everything’s above board.
This is why the whole election denial stuff is even more bullshit, they have official observers in there who can blow the whistle if they see anything but they never do. So they just rely on “reports” of other outside observers who think every truck moving around a polling spot is full of fraudulent ballots.
It probably shouldn’t be just election workers as they’re just selected by whoever applies to a temp job for a day or two, and it wouldn’t take much for all those people to just happen to be partisans
That works during the election but what about this investigation? What keeps this guy from manipulating the evidence? He’s clearly neither objective nor trustworthy
I say we make copies of all the ballots and just make them public record. Anyone can access and do recounts or analysis or whatever.
Stolen not seized.
The Media: “Our top story today, OMYGAWD The Bachelorette has been cancelled! But first SPORTS!”
So now the fascist GOP knows how 600k Californians voted? I guess we better hope that the guy in charge isn’t vindictive about people not supporting him.
As I understand it (have friends that deal with this data), the ballots are anonymized so they can’t back-associate the voting records to real ids. So at least there’s that.
The funniest thing that could happen in CA is voters have to choose between two Republican governors and they both argue about the other rigging the election.
Except for one of those two fascist idiots ending up being in charge of the state. THAT would be decidedly unfun.
There would be a recall 3 seconds after they take office lmao
One would hope CA realizes they need to change their voting system to stop being garbage after this. Jungle primary with top 2 (or top 4) advancing is fine, but there needs to be approval or ranked voting in the first round.
I just find it so funny that the dem field is so dilute that gop is potentially leading right now in California. Like, Dems just need to choose Porter, Swalwell, and one or two more, but they’re scared to because it will smell like choosing kamala and hillary (with good reason).
The billionaires here would deserve it.
I know this isn’t really the right time for this, but the US desperately needs a proper census system, the fact that there is a debate if a voter is properly registered or not for a general election is insane.
there is no real debate, just like there is no real debate that climate change is happening.
It is a ruse, a “big lie” repeated over and over again as a long-term strategy to gain authoritarian control.
there has never been any evidence of unregistered or unpermitted voters casting ballots beyond a few dozen isolated cases over the last 25 years - a vanishingly small occurrence among the billions of votes cast. Almost any method to “fix” those few dozen occurrences wipes out hundreds of thousands to many millions of valid voters; an intended result of the disenfranchisement strategy.
So if someones ID expires and the “save” act went through, I’m curious if they would actually accept a birth certificate. It’s not like a birth certificate even could have a photo ID on it. I believe it or not have grown about 200lbs since then. So the picture would be useless anyways. Then obviously people point out that a birth certificate is useless for anyone with a name change unless they are bringing the name change paperwork (marriage certificates or the like) just to prove they are that person. Half the country doesn’t have passports do to cost and the fact that they expire as well. Drivers licenses aren’t held by everyone, cost money, and also they can be legally suspended or taken for driving infractions which do not have anything to do with whether or not you are legally allowed to vote. Not to mention they expire as well.
The only way the save act would make sense is if everyone was provided free identification that was valid and you didnt need any other identification to acquire it. You don’t have to own a house to vote, you don’t have to be on a lease to vote, your name doesn’t have to be on a electric bill or such to vote. So none of those documents would make sense to ask for.
There is no easy way to do a system that is better than what is currently in place and as far as the majority are told, there is no evidence of it being tampered with enough to change it.
They don’t want an accurate account so that way they can make up whatever number they want…
they’re going to bungle it intentionally so they can point to inaccuracies and claim california’s 2026 vote is fraudulent. let me tell you how i know: they did not hire qualified auditors. you want this done right, Ernst&Young or KPMG are the only folk for the job. hell, pwc would do it honorably and the republicans and them have a history.
also they are republicans, but like, there are professional, unbiased reasons too why this is pure partisan poppycock
edit: fuck deloitte
there is no debate. it’s done properly and thoroughly. the whining comes from republicans, who are the same people who whine that you must have rolled the dice wrong and you need to reroll (so they can really have one more turn) when you just won the game you were playing
Of course he is a rabid trumper
And so it begins…
