Riverside County Supervisors Receive Official Canvass From June 2 Primary

The Riverside County Board of Supervisors Tuesday received the official canvass from the June 2 primary election, two and a half weeks after Registrar of Voters (ROV) Art Tinoco certified the results, despite concerns raised by a community group calling itself the Riverside Election Integrity Team (REIT).

“Each time the [ROV] comes, and he tells you that the results are full, true and accurate, and you are told to trust, but there is nothing to verify, and this is done repeatedly,” Veronica Langworthy, a member of REIT, said at the July 14 meeting. “And with our public records, we find that there are some irregularities.”

Tinoco, who addressed the board at the request of Supervisor Yxstian Gutierrez, said his office conducts various audits before he certifies the results to ensure the validity and accuracy of the vote.

“Everything we do at the Registrar of Voters’ Office is done with the utmost scrutiny,” he said. “It is not something we take lightly.”

REIT, a group of local residents whose data was the basis of Sheriff Chad Bianco’s recent investigation into alleged election fraud as first reported by The Riverside Record, has been bringing up concerns about local elections to the board for years. Since 2024, the group has been conducting its own audits using information obtained through California Public Records Act requests to compare the number of ballots received by the ROV’s office and the number of ballots counted.

With this data, members of the group contend that in every election they’ve audited, there have been more ballots counted than ballots received.

“We’ve proved before that the election has not been counted correctly,” Jodie Christopher, a member of REIT, said at the meeting. “Every time it’s been over, there’s been more votes than actual ballots.”

During a February workshop focused on the November 5, 2025, special statewide election, Tinoco said the group’s findings were likely inaccurate because they did not include missing ballots like those cast by confidential voters, conditional voter registration votes and provisional votes and used raw data coming in before the ballots had been processed including paper slips prone to human error. The group has pushed back on those assertions.

At Tuesday’s meeting, Greg Langworthy said he was unsure how the group would be able to complete its audit process for the June 2 primary due to a lack of information.

“We were not able to get any records from the post office, so no paperwork for ballots coming from the post office, and no paperwork, no receipts of ballots, coming from ballot harvesting,” Langworthy said. “The churches bring these tubs of ballots over. I know because we’re one of the churches that do it, but they didn’t have any paperwork.”

Tinoco said his office had provided all of the requested documents it could to the group, noting that his office could not produce requested documents that did not exist.

Langworthy said the group would “work with what we’ve got,” and would report its findings to the supervisors at a later meeting. Additionally, Supervisor Karen Spiegel, who sits on the county’s election ad hoc committee with Supervisor Jose Medina, said she intended to hold a meeting later this summer to talk about the issues raised by the group.

The discussion came just one day after the ROV’s office received an email from gubernatorial candidate Raji Rab, obtained through a records request by The Record, who has requested a statewide manual recount because his own analysis showed he received fewer votes than he should have based on his own analysis.

As part of Rab’s email to the ROV, he included correspondence with both the SOS and Shasta County ROV Clint Curtis, as first reported by Shasta Scout. 

According to information provided to Rab by the California Secretary of State’s Office (SOS), Rab would need to cover the cost of the recount in each of the state’s 58 counties. In order for a recount to start, Rab would need to deposit the estimated daily cost prior to the start of each day’s recount, the SOS said.

In an email to The Record, Riverside County ROV Public Information Officer Elizabeth Florer said a manual recount would take between 15 and 20 days to complete at a cost of more $55,000 per day in the county. In a text message to The Record, Curtis said he quoted Rab between $35,000 and $40,000 for the full recount, with a daily cost of about $9,000, in Shasta.

In his email exchange with Rab, Curtis advised the candidate to request a 15-day extension for the recount and to “get permission to test the ballots in Shasta,” because the county “seemed to have a lot of ballots that did not feel or look right.” 

Curtis, who addressed the Riverside County Board of Supervisors in February at the invitation of REIT, also said in the email that the information about alleged ballot irregularities had been sent to federal agencies. That email was sent July 10, more than a week after Curtis certified the results of the election.

The Record reached out to the SOS, which said it was evaluating the situation and had not been contacted by Curtis regarding concerns about ballot irregularities in Shasta County.

Curtis also said he was considering working with the FBI to determine the authenticity of the ballots, which might run afoul of a new state law passed in response to Bianco’s seizure of more than 600,000 voted ballots as part of the now-paused investigation.

The California Attorney General’s Office told Shasta Scout that it was monitoring the situation.