A sheriff in Riverside, Calif., has seized more than 650,000 ballots, alleging fraud, from a 2025 state election that allowed the state to redistrict.

The sheriff, Chad Bianco, said he was investigating allegations by an election activist group that vote tallies did not match the number of ballots received.

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco (R ), a GOP candidate for California’s governorship, seized more than a half million ballots from a November special election to approve redrawing congressional

Chad Bianco took nearly 1,000 boxes of ballots and election materials from the county's elections office in February.

Chad Bianco, the Riverside County sheriff and a leading Republican candidate for governor, said he’s conducting a “fact-finding mission” to determine if ballots were fraudulently counted.

A Southern California sheriff has seized more than 600,000 ballots as part of an investigation into alleged discrepancies in the November 2025 special election for Prop 50, drawing sharp criticism

Bianco is one of two Republicans running for governor in a primary that includes more than half a dozen Democrats