The comparatively slow vote counts during California elections are a feature of a working democratic system, not a bug.
Forget election night. Election season has been upon us for weeks, and it won’t be over anytime soon. California’s prodigious adoption of vote-by-mail balloting has done more than fundamentally alter how we engage in the democratic process. The shift has also necessitated a cultural reconfiguration about election night results, and recast the timeline for learning outcomes in many races. Definitive answers will likely only be clear in the most lopsided of contests by late Tuesday night.
California law dictates that ballots postmarked by election day must be accepted for up to seven days, meaning the total number of ballots cast won’t even be known until well into next week. “Ultimately, we will certify our election results on March 29,” Logan, the L.A. County elections chief, said with a laugh. “That's when we'll know that every vote has been counted and what the final returns are.
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