Republican California Sheriff Seizes Ballots In Election Probe Authored by Evgenia Filimianova via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who is running to be the next California governor, has seized more than half a million ballots from a November 2025 special election on redistricting, triggering a political and legal confrontation with state officials. Sheriff Chad Bianco of Riverside County speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on May 15, 2024. Kent Nishimura/Getty Images Bianco obtained the ballots with a court-approved warrant in February as part of what he described as an investigation into an alleged discrepancy between ballot logs and official vote totals. The dispute centers on Riverside County, an inland region east of Los Angeles with roughly 2.5 million residents, where Bianco has twice been elected sheriff. “ Investigations into irregularities must happen so that the public can have full confidence ,” he said in a March 22 post on X. Bianco announced the investigation at a press conference on March 20, saying it stemmed from a complaint by a local citizens group that reviewed public records from the county Registrar of Voters. Bianco alleged that handwritten intake logs showed 611,428 ballots were received, while 657,322 votes were reported to the state—a gap of roughly 45,896 votes. He rejected the registrar’s explanation that official machine counts showed only a minor deviation attributable to human error. Calling the probe a “fact-finding mission,” Bianco said investigators plan to physically count ballots and compare the total with certified results. Clash With Attorney General County election officials and California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, dispute Bianco’s claims and authority to conduct the probe. Bonta has characterized the seizure as unprecedented . In letters sent to the sheriff’s office over the past two months, he wrote that the action was “unacceptable” and that it “sets a dang...

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格隆汇3月24日｜Applied Optoelectronics涨超9%，领涨光通信概念股，康宁涨5.6%，Lumentum涨超5%，Coherent涨3.3%，Ciena涨2.7%。消息面上，Applied Optoelectronics宣布，其一位主要的超大规模客户下达了一份800G单模数据中心收发器的初始批量订单，总金额超过5300万美元。(格隆汇)