Does California know Election Day was three days ago?

It has been three days because the midterm elections. Did California miss the memo?

The Golden State is the alternative of the gold customary on nearly each subject, from poverty to homelessness to power coverage, and election procedures are on the high of the listing. In accordance with the New York Instances, there are 31 Home races the place no winner has been decided. Of these 31, greater than half (16) are in California.

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The state just isn’t even near figuring out who the winner is in these races. Simply a type of 16 races has had greater than 60% of the votes counted. In 5 of them, the state hasn’t even counted half of the votes. In California’s sixth Congressional District, solely 35% of the votes have been counted. For comparability, of the 15 non-California races nonetheless up for grabs, the slowest depend is in Washington’s seventh District, at 70%.

Statewide, California has counted simply 56% of the vote three days after polls closed.

This isn’t new for California both. In 2018, NBC Information didn’t declare a winner in California’s aggressive twenty first Congressional District till Dec. 6, a full month after Election Day on Nov. 6. In 2020, the Related Press didn’t declare a winner till 24 days after Election Day. Now remade into the twenty second District, simply 43% of the votes have been counted in what is going to doubtless be one other nail-biter race that might decide management of the Home of Representatives. It’s unlikely we’ll know the consequence earlier than Thanksgiving.

Florida, with a inhabitants of over 21 million individuals in two completely different time zones, is ready to depend all of its votes inside hours of the polls closing. California has 39 million individuals, certain, however that doesn’t justify taking almost a month to depend votes. California doesn’t even have all the votes which were forged: Mail-in ballots can arrive as late as Nov. 15, whereas in Florida, mail-in ballots are solely counted if they’re obtained by Election Day.

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There is no such thing as a excuse for California to be this unhealthy at working elections (or anything). The state has all of the sources it might ask for, and it stays the laughingstock of the nation, whereas its gradual depend helps sow mistrust in election procedures. The state can repair this any time it desires to, however when have California Democrats been recognized to repair any of the state’s issues?