Californians Deserve Better Than Endless, Fraud-Prone Vote Counting
I & I Editorial Board
June 5, 2026
President Donald Trump has been having a field day with the agonizingly slow vote count in California’s primary.
“The Dumocrats are at it again!” he posted Thursday on Truth Social. “They are trying to STEAL THE GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA PRIMARY, AND THE MAYOR OF LOS ANGELES, PRIMARY, AWAY FROM TWO GREAT REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.”
Which, of course, set off a frenzy of “Trump lies” responses from Democrats and the press.
But even if Trump is wrong about fraud, he’s right to complain about this laughably inept process.
As of this writing, two full days after polls closed, just 60% of the votes for governor, and less than two-thirds of the votes for the Los Angeles mayoral race have been counted. In a primary election.
As a result, three days after the polls closed, none of the Republicans running for governor or mayor knows if he will qualify for the general election in November.
NBC 4 Los Angeles, in an article attempting to explain the slow count, said that “the nation’s most populous state prioritizes accuracy and accessibility over speed.”
Then it goes on to say that “ballots are mailed to every eligible voter — some 23 million of them — and the state has permissive rules for returning them.” Ballots “will be counted if they are postmarked by Election Day and arrive at an election office within seven days.” [Emphasis added.]
So, what the reporter should have said is that California doesn’t prioritize accuracy at all.
It prioritizes convenience, often at the expense of accuracy.
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