California’s Crazy Vote Count Is a Warning to Other States

In election integrity, California ranks 49th in the nation.

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California voters cast their ballots in the March 3 Super Tuesday primary in Santa Ana, Calif., February 24, 2020.

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It has been over five days since polls closed in California’s primary and only 72 percent of votes in the Los Angeles mayor’s race have been counted. A generation ago, California reported its results fast enough that the winners were almost always known hours after voting stopped.

That was before liberals used the state as an experimental lab for every trendy, half-baked reform measure they could think of.

John Fund

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John Fund

John Fund is National Review’s national-affairs reporter.

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