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  "description": "At a March 20 press conference, Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco told reporters his office had been investigating election fraud since 2022. ",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-24T13:59:28.000Z",
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    "Riv. Sheriff’s attorney accidentally released election investigation documentsOne spreadsheet indicates that REIT’s initial recount was wrong. REIT first said 45,000 ballots appeared in the final tally. A spreadsheet with the date Feb. 13, 2026, indicated they were off by 18,000, because they did not count ballots collected at the drop box at the Registrar of Votes.Inland Empire Law WeeklyAidan McGloin",
    "according to CalMatters",
    "Poznanski emailed Shelby Bunch.",
    "offering training in election expertise"
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  "textContent": "SThe Riverside Sheriff's Office's investigation into election fraud has not brought any prosecutions.\n\nAt a March 20 press conference, Riverside Sheriff Chad Bianco told reporters his office had been investigating election fraud since 2022. When asked by Alicia Ramirez of the Riverside Record what the result of that investigation is, Bianco said he had referred cases to the DA's Office, some of which have been prosecuted.\n\n\"What was the outcome of that 2022 investigation?\" Ramirez asked.\n\n\"It's still going. I mean, we have found isolated instances of ballot fraud, of voting for people that are dead, or voting for people that don't live at the location. We have referred cases to the District Attorney's Office. Some of those are pending. Some of those have already been adjudicated,\" Bianco said.\n\nAt the same conference, Inland Empire Law Weekly asked Bianco how many of those cases referred to the DA were litigated. Bianco said he did not know.\n\n\"You said that there were some of these cases that were referred to the DA, and had been litigated. How many of those cases were litigated, and what were the results of that?\" Inland Empire Law Weekly asked.\n\n\"I don't know. I would tell you that individual election fraud with ballot fraud is very difficult to prove,\" Bianco said.\n\nInland Empire Law Weekly asked the District Attorney's Office for clarification that same week, and got the results of their internal research May 21:\n\nThe Riverside District Attorney's Office prosecuted four cases of unlawful voter registration or casting of a fraudulent vote since 2012. The last referral was made in July 2019. That case came from within the DA's Office, and was not referred by the Sheriff's Office.\n\nOn that same day, Inland Empire Law Weekly asked Lt. Deirdre Vickers of the Riverside County Sheriff's Office's Media Information Bureau how many cases the Sheriff's Office sent to the DA's Office regarding election fraud. Vickers forwarded the request to Bianco, who did not respond by the deadline for publication.\n\nLast month, Inland Empire Law Weekly obtained records from the investigation that were being sent to the Attorney General's Office.\n\nRiv. Sheriff’s attorney accidentally released election investigation documentsOne spreadsheet indicates that REIT’s initial recount was wrong. REIT first said 45,000 ballots appeared in the final tally. A spreadsheet with the date Feb. 13, 2026, indicated they were off by 18,000, because they did not count ballots collected at the drop box at the Registrar of Votes.Inland Empire Law WeeklyAidan McGloin\n\nThe records included seven reports from Sheriff's Investigator Robert Castellanos in 2023, when he interviewed county employees, then-Assistant Registrar of Voters Art Tinoco and then-Registrar of Voters Rebecca Spencer. He asked general questions about the integrity of the voting machines and the process for reconciling double ballots.\n\nPrior to Castellanos, Sheriff's Investigator Christopher Poznanski was investigating election integrity, according to CalMatters. He closed the case by July 2022, finding no evidence of fraud.\n\n\"Just wanted to update you on the status of the file/case opened by Sheriff Bianco and forwarded to me for follow up investigation. Based on the information you provided, our interview at Lake Elsinore Station and my investigation/research, there is insufficient evidence to proceed with a criminal filing against Rebecca Spencer, Registrar of Voters,\" Poznanski emailed Shelby Bunch. Bunch had been advocating for the Sheriff's Office to investigate county elections.\n\nWord of Poznanski's decision got around to Steve Tuminello, a member of the Constitional Sheriffs and Peace Officers' Association, who emailed Bianco in September 2022.\n\n\"I just heard this past week that a group of your Constituents requested that you investigate election fraud in Riverside County and that your investigator was unable to find anything and you closed your investigation,\" Tuminello wrote before offering training in election expertise.\n\nBianco responded that he was disappointed in Poznanski.\n\n\"I was quite disappointed with the investigators. We have new ones looking into it with the new info we are being provided,\" he wrote.",
  "title": "No prosecutions from Riv. Sheriff's 4-year election investigation",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-24T13:59:28.852Z"
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