California smells bad
What we are seeing in California is that winning is all that matters to the Democrats.
Silvio Canto, Jr. | June 9, 2026
On Sunday, a friend from California texted me that the late ballot counting was “legal” and the results would accurately reflect the ballot count.
Nevertheless, he admitted that the whole thing looks awful, and that many will conclude that the fix was in.
My friend is right that the whole thing is awful, and it’s time to change it. It’s sad when Colombia can announce results by 8 p.m., but California is still counting. Who knew that we’d be saying that Colombia has a more efficient vote counting system than California? Well they do, and so does Chile, Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina, and a few of those countries who we used to call “third world”!
Where do we go from here? Well, let’s hope that the Supreme Court can save California from itself. The Justices will probably issue another 6-3 opinion soon, and we can’t wait for it. Here is the story:
Imagine putting your taxes in the mail a full week before the April 15 deadline, only to be fined by the Internal Revenue Service for a late filing.
Never mind the April 8 postmark, the IRS explains. Federal tax codes require returns be ‘filed on or before the 15th day of April.’ If your returns were lost in handling or the U.S. Postal Service took too long to deliver them, that’s your problem, not theirs. Filing taxes is a two-step process, the IRS explains, that involves both submitting the returns and having a federal worker record their arrival.
It’s an absurd claim and not the way the IRS operates. But it is the very logic the Supreme Court is expected to use later this month in a decision that could doom California’s mail-in voting system.
California’s snail-paced tallying was back in the news last week as results of several races in the June 2 primary — including the high-profile race for governor and another for mayor of Los Angeles — remained unclear as mail-in ballots continue to arrive and be counted.
Hurry up justices. We really need you this time.
What we are seeing in California is that winning is all that matters to the Democrats. They want to preserve their power at any cost, even if it means counting until they get the desired result. It may be legal, under state rules, but it looks awful to the rest of us who vote in a more transparent way. It also makes you wonder how much longer we can preserve our union if voting rules are so different between states, and cities decide what federal laws they want to enforce. At some point, like a toxic marriage, the union will break and people will go their separate ways.
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