Los Angeles

180 readers

1 users here now

Lemmy instance for Los Angeles natives and visitors alike!! Feel free to post anything related to LA, including attractions, food, weather, county wide alerts/incidents, and more.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Maitreyi

More than half a million ballots seized by top GOP candidate in California governor’s race (www.latimes.com)

submitted 1 week ago by TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works to c/los_angeles

4 comments fedilink hide all child comments

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/57232222

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/57225583

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who is a leading Republican candidate for governor, has seized more than 650,000 ballots from last November’s election and is investigating whether they were fraudulently counted.

“This investigation is simple: Physically count the ballots and compare that result with the total votes recorded,” Bianco said at a news conference Friday.

"The unusual probe drew a sharp rebuke from California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta, who said in a statement Friday that it is “unprecedented in both scope and scale” and appears “not to be based on facts or evidence.”

“There is no indication, anywhere in the United States, of widespread voter fraud,” Bonta said. “Counts, recounts, hand counts, audits, and court cases all support this.”

top 4 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If the findings don't change the vote, charge the sheriff personally with the cost of the recount.

[–] theparadox@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Cost doesn't mean anything. It's just a play and another attempt to rile up the base.

I feel like this is the epitome of what is wrong with the modern world. Bad faith actors have learned how to exploit civility and eradicate truth.

Find something you don't like and shriek, confidently, and without any evidence, that it is corrupt/bad/evil.
Demand that a blatantly biased "authority" gets access to evidence so that they can "ensure" that is isn't corrupt/bad/evil.
If you are denied, shriek some more and claim it's because they are hiding the truth and that it's obviously corrupt/bad/evil.
If you aren't denied, have the "authority" verifying things lie and say that they discovered it's corrupt/bad/evil.
If an independent authority authenticates that it isn't corrupt/bad/evil, call that authority corrupt/bad/evil and continue shrieking at the top of your lungs.
Use either outcome as an excuse to take over and make things the way you want them to be without actual consensus.
Whine and complain that you are a victimized minority and repeat.

[–] Poach@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Has there been some level of chain of custody oversight? What it he fucks with the ballots?

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

How is it legal for a candidate in the race to "seize" ballots? This should be disqualifying. It's literally election tampering.