To the editor: I’m outraged that the Riverside County sheriff took custody of voter ballots to conduct his personal recount (“More than half a million ballots seized by top GOP candidate in California governor’s race,” March 21). Would he have given an lawyer custody of DNA proof so they might conduct their very own testing?
A far less complicated and safer method — with out shedding the chain of custody of the ballots — can be to pick a random set of the ballots (nonetheless inside the registrar’s custody) and see if the share reveals any statistical discrepancy with introduced outcomes.
Thomas Munnecke, San Marcos
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To the editor: So a GOP candidate for governor, Chad Bianco, has so little to supply Californians that he has to make use of a debunked 2020 Trump election fraud scheme to get consideration. It’s virtually like he’s live-auditioning for a job within the present president’s administration.
Jimmie Robertson, Dana Level
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To the editor: The article promising to disclose “what we all know” about Riverside County Sheriff Bianco not noted some vital particulars (“What we know about the Republican sheriff who seized 650,000 ballots,” March 23).
Sure, his presumably unlawful seizure of Proposition 50 ballots is clearly a PR stunt designed to lift his profile within the governor’s race. However voters ought to know that Bianco previously said he helps the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Assn., which the Southern Poverty Law Center calls an extremist group. The affiliation believes {that a} native sheriff’s powers supersede these of any company, even the FBI or the state Division of Justice. How disturbing {that a} main candidate for governor may help such a clearly unconstitutional ideology.
Bianco even joined the Oath Keepers for a yr in 2014. Whereas he denounced the truth that a few of its members participated within the occasions of Jan. 6, 2021, he defended the group total, saying, “they stand for shielding the Structure.”
California voters of all political stripes ought to reject Bianco and his extremist politics.
Paul Glickman, Sherman Oaks
