Newsom Defends Extremely Slow Vote Counting In California

“You guys wanna see how safe and secure mail in voting is?”

American receives 4 mail in ballots and 3 of them are for people who don’t even live at the address

Insane pic.twitter.com/hiFNHjaExt

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“Americans should expect, at a minimum, to have elections that are free and fair, and results that are delivered promptly. But California is taking its laid-back reputation too far, failing to deliver its election results in a timely manner and creating the perception that they are neither free nor fair,” writes Jarrett Stepman for The Daily Signal on Thursday.

“Slothful election results have plagued California for years since it made wholesale changes to its election system in 2016. It has mass mail-in ballots that can be counted post-election and allows for an extremely slow pace of counting,” he continued.