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by Anat Rubin and Jessica Pishko CalMatters.
In the spring of 2022, a woman named Shelby Bunch began appearing at government hearings in Riverside County, demanding that officials there address what she believed was an epidemic of fraud in local elections.
Bunch often introduced herself as a representative of New California, a secessionist movement that seeks to break away…
