Days after California’s primary election, the votes are still being counted, and the winners are still unknown, and no one, save for California officials, seems happy about it.
“The fact that California elections often can’t be resolved for weeks is kind of insane and not common in other electoral systems around the world,” Political data analyst Nate Silver wrote on X on Tuesday.
“Like honestly ‘it’s going to take us several weeks to tell you who won the election’ is failed state sh-t and should be much more stigmatized. The fact that it’s tolerated is bad too a textbook example of learned helplessness.“
And President Donald Trump is now demanding answers.
Trump posted on Truth Social on Thursday, targeting what he called the deliberate manipulation of California’s governor and Los Angeles mayoral races.
“There’s BIG cheating by the Dumocrats in California. Votes are all tied up,” he wrote.
“May not be in for weeks. Under investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles. Why the vote counting DELAY???”
In a follow-up post, Trump escalated further.
“The Dumocrats are at it again! They are trying to STEAL THE GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA PRIMARY, AND THE MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES, PRIMARY, AWAY FROM TWO GREAT REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.”
He then singled out mail-in ballots specifically.
“Here we go with the very late and massive numbers of MAIL IN BALLOTS.”
United States Attorney for the Central District of California, Bill Essayli, confirmed in a post on X that his office “has multiple election fraud investigations underway” in California, and is coordinating with the FBI in Los Angeles.
“California’s election system has serious structural vulnerabilities. Universal vote-by-mail with no voter ID requirements creates conditions where fraud can go undetected and unpunished, eroding public confidence,”he wrote.
In a post on Substack, Nate Silver noted that California averaged 38 percent of its votes counted after Election Day across the last five general elections. In the 2022 midterms, half of all votes were tallied post-Election Day. Silver did not spare California from the comparison its leaders apparently dread. “California likes to tout that it’s larger than many countries,” he wrote, “but most developed countries are able to wrap up nationwide elections more quickly than California can tabulate its votes. Colombia held a presidential election on Sunday, and 99.98 percent of the result was in on Monday morning. Japan also counts most of its votes overnight. And in the UK (not exactly a poster child for state capacity), you can generally expect to have calls for all 650 parliamentary seats the morning after the election.”
Silver posted a chart showing that California is the slowest state in the nation to count votes.
California Secretary of State Shirley Weber offers a rather weak excuse for her state’s handling of elections.
“I know the value of being fast for some folks,” she said. “For me, accuracy is far more important.”
That line might land better if California’s sluggishness were actually producing superior accuracy.
Still, Silver’s data suggests the state’s election administration has major structural problems regardless of how long the counting takes.
The state began nudging counties toward all-mail elections in 2016, applied the model statewide during the pandemic in 2020, and finally made it permanent in 2022. Under current California law, every registered voter automatically receives a mail ballot, and any ballot postmarked by Election Day and received within a week afterward counts as valid. Each of those ballots must be individually opened, verified, and processed before it can be tabulated. The result is a counting operation that drags on for weeks while the rest of the country waits. The system California guarantees maximum delay and minimum accountability, all while breeding distrust in the system.
U.S. Attorney Essayli says his office is conducting a “comprehensive audit” of California’s voter rolls, and will “not look the other way” from fraud, and promised that his office will “investigate and prosecute.”
“Every legal vote deserves to be counted,” he said. “Every illegal vote cancels one out.”
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Most elections and voting is fixed in the USA. In the EU the rich evil even threatens to overthrow any elections they don’t like. So have a lot of republic, with very little real democracy with predictable results in the western republics.
NO TRADITION OF THE PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF STOLEN POWER… I hope it’s a leave no sub-atomic particle unexamined from every possible angle type investigation, rather than the Bill Barr type investigation of the obvious election coup of our Whitehouse in 2020, which included two Biden sympathizing agents of the Fascist Bureau of Investigation showing up at a few election centers and asking the Democrat voter and election fraud perpetrators if they are aware of any suspicious voter and election fraud activities, with a nudge, nudge and a wink, wink and out the door in 10 minutes, laughing all the way to their vehicle, which said investigation was concluded in a matter of days, accompanied by the following bureacratic statement, “yes, there probably are some cases of voter and election fraud out there, but not enough to change the outcome of the election.” That said, given the fact unrepentant devil worshipers will commit any unethical, illegal orbunconstitutional offense to seize and continue clinging to their stolen power, unless and until we have an election system in every State, whereby it’s impossible to commit one case of voter and election fraud, no Democrat is legal and legitimate in the government sector from 1960’s to the present.
Trump installed his loyal stooge Bill Pulte as Director of National Intelligence despite having no experience whatsoever for one purpose, to pretend to honor the Constitution while remaining an errand boy strictly obedient to the President.
Pulte proved his worth to Trump with a talent for digging up meaningless anomalies and honest mistakes in the mortgage applications of individuals on Trump’s “vengeance list” so they could be targeted with the lawfare of weaponized government.
It’s consistent with the President openly admitting to not caring about the economy, the struggles of average Americans or any of his promises to them that he’s already given up on his dismal approval ratings and any hope of winning the midterm elections fair and square.
Pulte’s only other assignment after crippling America’s intelligence capabilities with a DOGE-like chainsaw job is to dig up an excuse for federal interference in states’ running their own elections, so Trump can continue to enjoy the unchecked freedom of a “doormat Congress” the rest of his term, and who knows, maybe a few “bonus terms” as President.
Nice piece of AI psyops slop. Pure fiction.
Yeah, right – my post is so “fictitious”, Taint Madman, that since you couldn’t offer any actual refutation you had to put it down by calling it names.
I know it rings true because of how it clearly triggered your need to respond with an emotional defense of faltering illusions.
Probe? Really? Elections in the USA have been bought for 100 years! Soros specializes in DA’s and federal judges, etc. Dominion rigging machines guaranteed to get the results your buck buys! Of course, all the fixing is done offshore and completely in the shade.
We all understand, at least, that the federal government has no authority to do anything about elections. The constitution makes it very clear that the states are in charge.
Wrong! Election rights are both state and federal rights, and where a state is derilect in affording all legal voters equal protection of election laws, the 14tb amendment has been violated and the federal government is ethically, legally and constitutionally required to intervene on behalf of the victims of the voter and election fraud.
14th amendment…
Donald Trump CHEATED in the 2026 KY senate race.
Donald Trump Cheated in every single election he was ever involved in, including the 2020 election.
Donald Trump completely sucks as a candidate and no one likes him, but a few brain dead people.
Facts please, not fake news fiction…
GOOD.