CA-GOV: Search warrants show California ballot seizure echoed Fulton County election raid

Newly unsealed search warrants in the California ballot seizure case paint a chilling picture of how the types of anti-voting conspiracy theories weaponized by the White House to investigate the 2020 presidential election can be used to target elections on a state and local level.

They also show that the local sheriff’s department took up election fraud claims pushed by anti-voting activists, including one woman involved in a movement to secede from California.

In February, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco seized 650,000 ballots from the state’s 2025 redistricting election following reports of a large discrepancy between ballots cast and counted. The county registrar said that figure stems from anti-voting activists misunderstanding raw election data.

In March, Bianco announced the seizure and his intent to conduct a recount of the ballots. But how the sheriff legally justified taking the ballots remained unclear until Wednesday, when a judge ordered the search warrants unsealed.



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