Eric BonoUsing years of internal emails, reporters Anat Rubin and Jessica Pishko have traced the development of the 4-year-old case that ultimately led to Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco’s unprecedented seizure of 650,000 ballots in March.
The emails show that:
The case began when a group came to Bianco with a slate of election fraud allegations in 2022. One of the sheriff’s senior investigators looked into the claims and quickly came to the conclusion that there was no evidence of a crime. He closed the case.
After being contacted later that year by the “constitutional sheriffs” movement, Bianco said he’d reopened the investigation. The movement has pushed unproven election conspiracies and argues that elected sheriffs are the highest law in the land, more powerful than the president or courts. It has been central to Bianco’s career.
But the emails show that the sheriff had his doubts about the citizen sleuths supplying the claims. “This is absolutely ridiculous,” Bianco responded after the group’s leader suggested the county supervisors were complicit in election fraud and may have ties to drug cartels. “Just because ‘someone’ convinced themselves of something doesn’t mean its reality.”
In three years of investigating the matter, the sheriff’s office didn’t produce any of its own evidence to support the case. In information provided to the courts to justify its warrant, Bianco’s investigator focused almost entirely on information provided by the citizen groups.
https://calmatters.org/newsletter/chad-bianco-emails/
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