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.”

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    22 hours ago

    It’s prob not gonna happen anyway. Rs don’t get that high a vote share and all of the polls have the combined R share close to the typical total R share already, with like 20% undecided that are largely D. There’s a real shot still that it’s two Ds anyway just because Bianco and Hilton are capped out on support already.

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      22 hours ago

      probably, but like i am having trouble deciding between Swalwell and Porter (lots of lawyers and judges in the family so i understand them when they talk and feel kinship, also i like Porter’s whiteboard and Swalwell’s performance in the 45 impeachments (yes i know the senate was going to do nothing anyways, he explained stuff well and in a digestible manner) and i can see 5 or 6 actually electable Dems hanging in there until the election.