REMINDER: Elections in California's Orange County Should Never Have Been Certified in 2024

What does this have to do with Chad Bianco's Riverside County Investigation? Elections in California's Riverside County Should Never Have Been Certified in 2025

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By Joe Hoft December 1, 2025

Where is the DOJ?  Where is the GOP?

The 2024 election in Orange County, California, wasn’t an election; it was a sham, and those with oversight covered it up.  Now it’s going to get even worse!

Below is a summary of the material issues identified in this election.

BALLOT HARVESTING and MAIL-IN BALLOTS

Since California went to ballot harvesting, the results have been devastating for the GOP in Orange County. Heritage reported in 2019:

Vote harvesting is the collection of absentee ballots from voters by a third party who then delivers them to election officials. The term “vote harvesting” was essentially unknown to the general public until the North Carolina State Board of Elections overturned the results of the 2018 election for the Ninth Congressional District due to illegal vote harvesting, what the board called a “coordinated, unlawful and substantially resourced absentee ballot scheme.”

It was also raised as a concern in California after the unexpected losses of Republican-held congressional seats, including in Orange County, a traditional Republican stronghold, where the registrar of voters said that individuals were “dropping off maybe 100 or 200 ballots” at a time.

Ballot harvesting is still in place and all registered voters receive a ballot for the election in the mail.  The chain of custody surrounding ballots harvested in the state is not adequate or is non-existent.  Who knows where the completed ballots come from?

VOTER IDENTIFICATION

Not only is it almost impossible to determine where a ballot came from, it is also impossible to determine who the ballot came from.  Local governments in the state couldn’t ask for ID’s from voters.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed legislation that prevents local governments from requiring voters to present identification at the polls, a law aimed at curbing conservative efforts in cities like Huntington Beach.

Californians literally have no idea who sent in the millions of ballots counted in the 2024 Election.

ELECTION OBSERVER VOTER SIGNATURE CHALLENGES DENIED

Election observers were prevented from the reasonable ability to observe the 2024 Election.  If they identified anything, they lacked the ability to do anything about it.

BATCHES RAN THROUGH TABULATORS MULTIPLE TIMES

On Friday November 8, 2024, three days after the 2024 Election, we reported that the GOP needed assistance curing ballots in Orange County, California.  This report was republished by The Gateway Pundit and shared on Truth Social by President Trump.  At this point, three US House seats (out of six voted on in the county) were up for grabs with more than 300,000 votes left to count.

The next day, on Saturday, November 9th, we reported that there was a bomb threat at the election counting facility in Orange County, California the day before, on Friday the 8th.

• We subsequently learned that once the bomb threat was received, it took more than an hour for county officials to respond to the threat.  Innocent people on-site were kept in the dark about the threat.

• A text of the bomb threat email message was released in late December 2024 per a FOIA request.

• In January we received videos of the events that night during the bomb threat.  The facility was not secure with the back door wide open and people walking in an out.  No one was bothered about a bomb threat.  We also observed during this time, workers pushing the same batch of ballots through tabulators multiple times.

• The bomb threat investigation was eventually closed by the county with no one identified behind the bomb threat and no one indicted for any related crime.

WEEKS OF COUNTING

Another observation about Orange County, California elections is the weeks of “counting” ballots after the election before the results are certified.  America knew the results of the 2024 Election in Florida and Texas on Election night, but not so in California.

On election day, at least four US Congressional seats out of six in Orange County showed that the GOP candidate was ahead.  But after weeks of counting, three of these candidates lost to Democrats (the 45th, 47th, and 49th districts) by a total of approximately 28,000 votes.

The worst scenario was Michelle Steel’s loss.  She was ahead for at least 10 days before the election was called for her Democrat opponent.

Here is what her election looked like.

Congresswoman Michelle Steele’s Post Election Graph. Thank You George!! pic.twitter.com/UOPKlK7hIj— California Precinct Activators – Constitution (@CAPACTIVATORSUS) December 4, 2024

An Estimated One in Five Orange County Voters Were Either NON-CITIZENS, INVALID, OR PHANTOM VOTERS

This article was posted in early April of 2025 – More than one out of five voters in this election were found to be non-citizens, invalid, or phantom voters.  Elon Musk retweeted this.

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Shocking Report Results Indicate that One Fifth of the Voters in the 2024 Election in Orange County, CA Were Non-Citizens, Invalid or Phantom Voters

 THE FINAL RESULTS DIDN’T ADD UP

Although tremendously unpopular in California, somehow Kamala Harris received more votes for President than President Trump in conservative Orange County, California. In addition, the county reported 2,186,561 ballots issued in the election, which was 325,111 more ballots issued than the number of registered voters.  (The county responded that this difference was due to the county providing ballots to in-person voters in addition to them receiving ballots in the mail, and assured us that they checked every voter to make sure that no one voted more than once.)

Also, a comparison between the number of ballots counted versus the number of ballots received had a material discrepancy where there were 309,116 more ballots counted than the number of ballots returned in the county.  (The county explained this away as a system reporting error.)

THE GRAND JURY REPORT

In an effort to convince the public that the results in Orange County were certifiable, the county presented evidence to a grand jury, which they believed would demonstrate that the county’s 2024 election results were accurate.  This discrepancy arose when it was discovered that the total number of ‘voters’ reported in the report (1,376,950) didn’t align with the final number of ballots counted by the county (1,417,397).

Based on all these material issues identified, Orange County’s 2024 Election results never should have been certified. 

The following post by President Trump before the 2024 Election was included in most, if not all of the articles mentioned above.

CEASE & DESIST: I, together with many Attorneys and Legal Scholars, am watching the Sanctity of the 2024 Presidential Election very closely because I know, better than most, the rampant Cheating and Skullduggery that has taken place by the Democrats in the 2020 Presidential…— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 25, 2024