{"id":70199,"date":"2026-03-27T14:56:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/california-sheriff-seizes-more-ballot-materials-in-defiance-of-state-officials\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:56:31","slug":"california-sheriff-seizes-more-ballot-materials-in-defiance-of-state-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/california-sheriff-seizes-more-ballot-materials-in-defiance-of-state-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"California sheriff seizes more ballot materials in defiance of state officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chad Bianco, running for governor, previously confiscated 650,000 ballots for baseless voter fraud investigation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\">Republican<\/a> sheriff in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\">California<\/a> has confiscated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/26\/us\/politics\/california-sheriff-ballots-attorney-general.html\">additional ballot materials<\/a> from a special election, escalating his conflict with state lawmakers who say he is conducting a baseless investigation into claims of voter fraud.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Chad Bianco, the Riverside county sheriff who is running for governor, was already at the center of a legal controversy after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/23\/california-sheriff-election-ballots-seized\">seizing 650,000 ballots<\/a> from last year\u2019s special election. Earlier this week he ordered his office to seize <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/26\/us\/politics\/california-sheriff-ballots-attorney-general.html\">426 additional boxes<\/a> of ballot materials as part of the alleged criminal investigation, prompting criticism from lawmakers including Rob Bonta, California\u2019s Democratic attorney general.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/27\/chad-bianco-california-ballots-voter-fraud\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chad Bianco, running for governor, previously confiscated 650,000 ballots for baseless voter fraud investigation Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A Republican sheriff in California has confiscated additional ballot materials from a special election, escalating his conflict with state lawmakers who say he is conducting a &#8230; <a title=\"California sheriff seizes more ballot materials in defiance of state officials\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/california-sheriff-seizes-more-ballot-materials-in-defiance-of-state-officials\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about California sheriff seizes more ballot materials in defiance of state officials\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70199","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=70199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}