California Knew This Was Coming. It Did Nothing.

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Days after California’s June 2 primary, the primary race for governor remains unresolved. The Los Angeles mayoral contest was unresolved for days after the primary. Several congressional races are unresolved. And by California law, they may stay that way for weeks.

We’ve seen this before. We saw it coming. And frankly, so did everyone else.

In February, the New York Times editorial board – no bastion of conservativism – published a piece headlined “California Slow Vote Counting Is a Gift to Republicans.” The board made the case plainly: California’s drawn-out counting process damages public trust in government, provides oxygen to misinformation, and produces no meaningful benefit in voter access that couldn’t be preserved through smarter design. Our colleague Jan Brewer, former governor and secretary of state of Arizona, responded in those same pages reinforcing the point. Through our work together at Right Count, a nonpartisan election confidence initiative, she wrote that voters across the political spectrum want the same thing: “elections that are accurate, transparent and resolved........

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