{"id":69906,"date":"2026-03-24T19:55:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/california-attorney-general-seeks-court-order-to-stop-recounting-of-county-ballots\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T19:55:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:55:46","slug":"california-attorney-general-seeks-court-order-to-stop-recounting-of-county-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/california-attorney-general-seeks-court-order-to-stop-recounting-of-county-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"California attorney general seeks court order to stop recounting of county ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riverside county sheriff had last month seized more than 650,000 ballots cast in the state\u2019s November special election<\/p>\n<p>California\u2019s attorney general, Rob Bonta, is seeking a court order to stop the Riverside county sheriff\u2019s department from continuing its recount of ballots from the November 2025 special election.<\/p>\n<p>The LA Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-03-24\/state-ag-takes-riverside-county-sheriff-to-court-over-seized-ballots\">reports<\/a> that Bonta filed a petition with the fourth appellate district on Monday, writing that \u201cthe Sheriff\u2019s misguided investigation threatens to sow distrust and jeopardize public confidence\u201d in upcoming elections.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/24\/california-attorney-general-rob-bonta-ballot-recounting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riverside county sheriff had last month seized more than 650,000 ballots cast in the state\u2019s November special election California\u2019s attorney general, Rob Bonta, is seeking a court order to stop the Riverside county sheriff\u2019s department from continuing its recount of ballots from the November 2025 special election. The LA Times reports that Bonta filed a &#8230; <a title=\"California attorney general seeks court order to stop recounting of county ballots\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/california-attorney-general-seeks-court-order-to-stop-recounting-of-county-ballots\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about California attorney general seeks court order to stop recounting of county ballots\">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-69906","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\/69906","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=69906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}