{"id":69739,"date":"2026-03-23T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/california-sheriff-running-for-governor-seizes-over-650000-ballots-from-2025-election\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T08:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:55:00","slug":"california-sheriff-running-for-governor-seizes-over-650000-ballots-from-2025-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/california-sheriff-running-for-governor-seizes-over-650000-ballots-from-2025-election\/","title":{"rendered":"California sheriff running for governor seizes over 650,000 ballots from 2025 election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Chad Bianco investigating Prop 50 vote despite officials denying claims of ballots being cast unlawfully<\/p>\n<p>A California sheriff who is running as a Republican for governor has seized more than 650,000 ballots from last year\u2019s election, escalating an ongoing conflict with state officials.<\/p>\n<p>Chad Bianco, Riverside county\u2019s sheriff, says he is carrying out an investigation into allegations that ballots were unlawfully cast in last year\u2019s election that resulted in the passage of Proposition 50. The proposition redrew congressional districts to help gerrymander the state in favor of Democrats, in response to similar measures in Republican states like Texas.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/23\/california-sheriff-election-ballots-seized\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Chad Bianco investigating Prop 50 vote despite officials denying claims of ballots being cast unlawfully A California sheriff who is running as a Republican for governor has seized more than 650,000 ballots from last year\u2019s election, escalating an ongoing conflict with state officials. Chad Bianco, Riverside county\u2019s sheriff, says he is carrying out an &#8230; <a title=\"California sheriff running for governor seizes over 650,000 ballots from 2025 election\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/23\/california-sheriff-running-for-governor-seizes-over-650000-ballots-from-2025-election\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about California sheriff running for governor seizes over 650,000 ballots from 2025 election\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}