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California’s Slow Roll Vote-Counting Is an Outrage

Americans should expect, at a minimum, to have elections that are free, fair, and delivered promptly. But California is taking its laid-back reputation too far, failing to deliver its election results in a timely manner and creating the perception that they are neither free nor fair.

Slothful election results have plagued California for years since it made wholesale changes to its election system in 2016. It has mass mail-in ballots that can be counted post-election and allows for an extremely slow pace of counting.

Proponents of the system say this makes their elections more “secure” and accessible.

You won’t be surprised to learn that Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, insists that this is the best voting system of all time and that all criticism is FAKE NEWS.

But that’s certainly not how it looks.

As of now, the Los Angeles mayoral runoff would seem to be down to incumbent Democrat Karen Bass and the surging upstart Republican Spencer Pratt, with leftist candidate Nithya Raman taking the third spot. That would cut Raman out of the general election.

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Raman cried on election night and certainly seemed convinced that she’d lost.

But since election day, new batches of mail-in votes have continued to trickle in for Raman. Even more curiously, electoral prediction markets have swung strongly in her favor.

JUST IN: Nithya Raman soars to a 71% chance of advancing to the LA mayoral runoff, as officials continue processing mail-in ballots. pic.twitter.com/P2rkmeWMU9— Polymarket (@Polymarket) June 4, 2026

JUST IN: Nithya Raman soars to a 71% chance of advancing to the LA mayoral runoff, as officials continue processing mail-in ballots. pic.twitter.com/P2rkmeWMU9

Why would it be a surprise that many are calling foul?

It’s been........

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