🚨 EMERGENCY UPDATE — CALIFORNIA ELECTION INTEGRITY
This morning, Joe Hoft published my investigation into Alex Padilla, Xavier Becerra, VoteCal, Motor Voter, Riverside, and California's missing election-security record.
But the story moved again before the article was even published.
Yesterday, Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff sent Secretary of State Shirley Weber a letter demanding “maximum oversight” in Shasta County after Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis said he wanted FBI and DHS assistance testing ballots for authenticity.
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And look at the cast of characters now:
Alex Padilla — former California Secretary of State who certified VoteCal and is now demanding state oversight of access to Shasta election materials.
Adam Schiff — joined Padilla in demanding that oversight.
Shirley Weber — California Secretary of State being asked to intervene.
Clint Curtis — Shasta County Registrar of Voters seeking authentication of ballots he says warrant examination.
Riverside County — specifically cited by Padilla and Schiff, where Sheriff Chad Bianco's seizure of election materials has already produced a major legal fight.
Xavier Becerra — former California Attorney General whose signed 2018 election-security warning is at the center of my investigation—and who is now asking Californians to elect him governor in November.
And then there is something readers didn't know when this morning's article went live:
I was brought into discussions involving Clint Curtis beginning June 9, just seven days after the California primary. I still have the contemporaneous messages.
I am now going back through those records.
This investigation is no longer only about what California officials knew years ago.
It is about who can examine California's election evidence today, who controls access to it, and why those questions are exploding months before Californians choose their next governor.
The article published this morning. The story is already moving.
More coming.
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