{"id":71202,"date":"2026-04-08T13:55:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/california-sheriff-who-seized-ballots-ordered-to-halt-election-investigation\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:55:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T18:55:50","slug":"california-sheriff-who-seized-ballots-ordered-to-halt-election-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/california-sheriff-who-seized-ballots-ordered-to-halt-election-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"California sheriff who seized ballots ordered to halt election investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney general says court ruling against Chad Bianco \u2018reins in the destabilizing actions of a rogue sheriff\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The California supreme court on Wednesday ordered a county sheriff and gubernatorial candidate who seized more than half a million 2025 election ballots to pause his investigation into election fraud allegations while the judges review the legal challenge against it.<\/p>\n<p>The order came after the California attorney general, Rob Bonta, last month asked the court to step in, arguing the sheriff has no authority over election materials. A voting rights group is also challenging the ballot seizure.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/08\/california-sheriff-election-ballots\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney general says court ruling against Chad Bianco \u2018reins in the destabilizing actions of a rogue sheriff\u2019 The California supreme court on Wednesday ordered a county sheriff and gubernatorial candidate who seized more than half a million 2025 election ballots to pause his investigation into election fraud allegations while the judges review the legal challenge &#8230; <a title=\"California sheriff who seized ballots ordered to halt election investigation\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/california-sheriff-who-seized-ballots-ordered-to-halt-election-investigation\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about California sheriff who seized ballots ordered to halt election investigation\">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-71202","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\/71202","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=71202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}