Newsom Defends Extremely Slow Vote Counting In California…

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He claimed that California leaders, including Newsom, wanted to make it easier for people to cast “last-minute ballots” by mail rather than focus more on counting ballots quickly. Ron DeSantis of Florida and Greg Abbott of Texas-two states that have been recipients of California residents and companies. Advertisement He said those leaders are “focused more on counting ballots quickly” than on giving residents “more time to decide” who they wanted to vote for at the last minute. Newsom wrote in an X post featuring the video: “There is a lot of misinformation floating around about California’s election – including from the President. This explainer is worth a watch. And yes, for the record: we wish the votes were counted faster, too.” Advertisement Newsom didn’t mention any ways he, as governor, and the state Assembly, which has a Democrat supermajority, could implement fixes to speed up the vote count process.

Online Backlash and Criticism

The outgoing California governor’s video and statement were blasted online, with many social media users claiming California Dems have created a system that makes it much easier to cheat to their advantage. There is a lot of misinformation floating around about California’s election – including from the President. This explainer is worth a watch.And yes, for the record: we wish the votes were counted faster, too. https://t.co/pctXIVnUK1 THE ELECTIONS ARE RIGGED IN CALIFORNIA.!!The Voters are being CHEATED. 🤯🤬🤬🤬 pic.twitter.com/SB3bvDFuDf “You guys wanna see how safe and secure mail in voting is?”American receives 4 mail in ballots and 3 of them are for people who don’t even live at the address Insane pic.twitter.com/hiFNHjaExt

Election Security Concerns

“Americans should expect, at a minimum, to have elections that are free and fair, and results that are 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,” writes Jarrett Stepman for The Daily Signal on Thursday. “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,” he continued. While elections in California certainly are “accessible,” as the above video from a California resident demonstrated, claiming they are secure is more than a stretch, per Stepman:

Los Angeles Mayoral Race Uncertainty

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. 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 “Election prediction markets should be taken with a grain of salt, but the fact that we are so far from election day and we are still so far from resolution is, frankly, shameful,” said Stepman.

 

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