{"id":1422,"date":"2026-06-09T19:37:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2026-06-09T19:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:37:40","slug":"california-knew-this-was-coming-it-did-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=1422","title":{"rendered":"California Knew This Was Coming. It Did Nothing."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_1 --> <\/p>\n<p>Days after California\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=1420\">Supreme Court Declines To Hear Appeal In Case About Man Stripped Of Gun Rights Over Missing Child Support<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve seen this before. We saw it coming. And frankly, so did everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>In February, the\u00a0New York Times editorial board\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<em>no bastion of conservativism\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 published a piece headlined \u201cCalifornia Slow Vote Counting Is a Gift to Republicans.\u201d The board made the case plainly: California\u2019s drawn-out counting process damages public trust in government, provides oxygen to misinformation, and produces no meaningful benefit in voter access that couldn\u2019t be preserved through smarter design. Our colleague Jan Brewer, former governor and secretary of state of Arizona,\u00a0responded 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: \u201celections that are accurate, transparent and resolved promptly. Prolonged uncertainty fuels distrust and gives oxygen to misinformation and conspiracy theories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She was right then. California\u2019s primary just proved it again. <strong>(RELATED: Gavin Newsom\u2019s Newest Election Law Could Open The Door To Major Voter Fraud)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s be direct about something: the fact that California counts slowly does not mean votes are being stolen. It does not mean there is rampant election fraud. Anyone making those claims should be held to the evidence, and the evidence isn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_2 --> <\/p>\n<p>But, and this matters enormously, a process that is genuinely dysfunctional invites exactly that kind of charge. And California\u2019s leaders had every opportunity to fix it before this moment arrived.<\/p>\n<p>We come from battleground states \u2013 Pennsylvania and Arizona \u2013 that have systems that offer mail-voting access while maintaining basic, common-sense rules. In Arizona, mail ballots must be received by 7 p.m. on Election Day to be counted. Ballot-by-mail has been available in Arizona for over two decades, and in the 2020 general election,\u00a0approximately 89% of ballots cast were early ballots, so no one can argue that a hard receipt deadline suppresses participation. Pennsylvania offers no-excuse mail-in voting to every registered voter, with ballots due by 8 p.m. on Election Day. In counties with a notice-and-cure policy, voters are notified of fixable errors and given the opportunity to correct them, and in the 2024 general election, just 0.57% of mail ballots in Pennsylvania faced rejections because of common voting errors. Both states produce timely results. Neither state hands a recurring gift to those who want to sow distrust.<\/p>\n<p>California, by contrast, allows mail ballots to be counted if they arrive up to seven days after Election Day, a policy that guarantees a flood of unprocessed ballots after election night and weeks of uncertainty. The delay it produces affects everyone. <strong>(RELATED: California Faces Election Fraud Investigations Amid Major Vote Count Delays)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=1418\">Democrats\u2019 Acceptance Of Sex Changes Nosedived By Double Digits In One Year, Poll Shows<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_3 --> <\/p>\n<p>Governor Newsom\u00a0signed legislation last year\u00a0requiring counties to count most ballots within 13 days rather than 30. But he also\u00a0sent a letter\u00a0to county election officials weeks before this primary essentially pleading with them to count faster \u2014 while acknowledging the state hadn\u2019t given them the funding to do so. He told reporters: \u201cGet your act together.\u201d That\u2019s not a reform. That\u2019s a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The Constitution reserves election administration to the states. We don\u2019t believe in federal mandates telling California how to run its elections, and we\u2019re not here to write Sacramento\u2019s legislation. But we do believe that one-party governance comes with accountability, and the voters of California deserve leaders that are willing to look honestly at what isn\u2019t working rather than defending the status quo as an expression of virtue.<\/p>\n<p>The integrity of elections isn\u2019t a partisan issue. At RightCount, we are working to make the case that accuracy, transparency, and timely results are goods every American should demand of their election system, red state, blue state, or anything in between. The proof is already out there: battleground states, under genuine political pressure from both sides, are working to figure it out. California\u2019s leaders should start demanding the same of themselves.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lou Barletta is a former U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania. Matt Salmon is a former U.S. Congressman from Arizona. Both are advisors to RightCount, an initiative focused on educating the public on election outcomes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the Daily Caller.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=1416\">Brooke Hogan Pushes Back On Results Of Police Investigation Into Hulk Hogan\u2019s Death<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days after California&#039;s June 2 primary, the primary race for governor remains unresolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[891,1717,195,1777,512],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-arizona","tag-election-integrity","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-mail-in-ballots","tag-pennsylvania"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>California Knew This Was Coming. 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