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Riverside County Sheriff Stops Investigation Into Alleged 2025 Election Discrepancies

The Republican gubernatorial candidate paused the probe, in which more than 650,000 ballots were seized, after legal pushback from state officials.
Riverside County Sheriff Stops Investigation Into Alleged 2025 Election Discrepancies
Sheriff Chad Bianco of Riverside County speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on May 15, 2024. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images
Kimberly Hayek
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Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco has halted his office’s investigation into alleged inconsistencies in last November’s special election on redistricting over legal challenges from California Attorney General Rob Bonta and a voting rights group.

Bianco, who is currently a leading Republican candidate for governor in 2026, said in a statement to The Epoch Times that his office placed the probe “on hold because of the politically motivated lawsuits and court filings.”

Kimberly Hayek
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Kimberly Hayek is a reporter for The Epoch Times. She covers California news and has worked as an editor and on scene at the U.S.-Mexico border during the 2018 migrant caravan crisis.