In Riverside County, California, Sheriff Chad Bianco — a Donald Trump supporter and former Oath Keepers member who is running for governor of California as a Republican — recently announced that his department had seized 650,000 voting ballots cast in a 2025 election. Bianco, at a late March news conference, told reporters, "This investigation is simple: Physically count the ballots and compare that result with the total votes reported.""
MS NOW's Steve Benen, in an opinion column published