California's Democratic attorney general challenges Republican sheriff's ballot recount

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California's Democratic attorney general challenges Republican sheriff's ballot recount
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The California attorney general and a voting right groups have launched two legal challenges to halt a ballot seizure by a Republican sheriff in Riverside County. The dispute began last month when Sheriff Chad Bianco took some 650,000 ballots from a 2025 election and escalated this week as Bianco took even more ballots from county election office.

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