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GOP California governor candidate seizes over 500,000 ballots in disputed probe
(www.independent.co.uk)
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this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2026
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Pedo stache. calling this one now before a journalist deep dives him.
It begins
It began a while ago
Has the sheriff tried minding his own fucking business?
He's on the ballots he seized....
The problem is he's conflating personal business with sherrif business
Huge conflict of interest here, this man thinks he’s the Trump of his world.
Is there any chance in hell he can actually accomplish anything this way?
in California it's pretty hard, we vote on paper and count with scantrons plus hand counts, there's nothing to fudge up.
And yet he is in possession of those paper ballots. So he can do plenty of nefarious things with them, and then claim that the official count is wrong. And it won’t matter if he’s obviously lying, because ~30% of the country will believe him. And that 30% votes more consistently than any other demographic, so they’ll be over-represented.
It's about changing the language and the perceptions surrounding election fraud.
Nothing to do with a legitimate outcome.
It's nastier and more cynical, though.
He's well aware he's not going to win California. He's happy just to poison the process and claim the election was stolen from him.
Fingers crossed for Katie Porter 🤞