The California Supreme Court handed down an order Wednesday temporarily halting an election fraud investigation led by Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, whose office has seized more than 650,000 ballots from county election officials.
The ballots retrieved by the Republican sheriff’s office were cast in the state’s special election on redistricting in the fall. Bianco is a GOP California gubernatorial candidate and is neck-and-neck in the polls with Republican Steve Hilton, whom President Donald Trump recently endorsed.
The effort drew scrutiny from California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D), who asked the state’s high court to intervene. The court sided with Bonta for now while it reviews the legal merits of the case.
The California Supreme Court specifically ordered Bianco to pause the investigation and preserve all seized ballots. Bonta hailed the ruling as a “necessary and appropriate response to what is clearly an unprecedented situation” caused by the law enforcement official.
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