News

California’s slow vote count sows doubt. Here’s how one group is trying to fix that

Excerpt:

California has a notoriously slow ballot counting process — one that Kim Alexander describes as “a pig in the python.”

“This giant wad of ballots that all arrive at once, that all have to move through the process, and you can’t speed it up,” said Alexander, president of the nonpartisan California Voter Foundation. “You have to do every single step, otherwise you lose the integrity of the process.”

Close Count Update #6: CD 13 margin narrows, CD 45 lead flips

Hi Folks,

We are two weeks past Election Day and several California U.S. House and legislative contests and one state ballot proposition remain too close to call.

CA vote count

Excerpt:

The Close Count Transparency Project: is a tracker created by the California Voter Foundation that provides daily updates on the results of 11 competitive U.S. House races and seven state legislative races, as well as the statewide vote count status. The tool tracks candidates’ vote share, votes counted and the number of unprocessed ballots in each county the districts cover.

Close Count Update #5: Two CA U.S. House contests still "too close to call"

What’s taking California so long to count its ballots from Election Day?

Excerpts:

More than 11 days after polls closed around the nation and Donald Trump was declared president-elect of the United States, California is still moving methodically through roughly 800,000 uncounted ballots that are holding up final tallies in several contests.

A Look at the Close Count Transparency Project

Full Audio

Some California House races haven’t been decided yet. Campaigns are making sure every ballot counts

Excerpt:

The election is over, and no more ballots can be cast. But campaigns in tight congressional races across California are scrambling to make sure their supporters’ votes are counted.

Through the increasingly common process known as “ballot curing,” campaigns are contacting voters whose ballots were not counted because of a technicality and giving them a chance to correct their mistakes. That could mean asking them to correct their address or add their signature to an envelope they forgot to sign.

These California toss-ups helped decide which party controls Congress

Excerpt:

In 2020, California Democrats lost four of the seven competitive congressional seats they had just gained amid a “blue wave” two years earlier. In 2022, Republicans gained one more seat in California and took control of the U.S. House.

This election, it is Republicans who must play defense.

Seven California House contests undecided one week after Election Day

Hi Folks,

Many California congressional and legislative races remain too close to call. CVF's Close Count Transparency Project is tracking a number of close U.S. House and legislative races which you can view in the CVF tracker.

Decisive election waits for California’s results. What’s the hold-up?

Excerpt:

It’s been nearly a week since election day, and California is still counting ballots, imposing an agonizing wait on a nation wondering who will lead the next U.S. House of Representatives.

It isn’t a surprise that California is taking its time to verify, process and count the ballots of its more than 22 million registered voters.

While some might see the delay as a problem, Russia Chavis Cardenas, the voting rights and redistricting program manager for California Common Cause, called it a virtue.

Search form

Pages