Newsom Defends Extremely Slow Vote Counting In California

“Proponents of the system say this makes their elections more ‘secure’ and accessible,” Stepman added.

While elections in California certainly are “accessible,” as the above video from a California resident demonstrated, claiming they are secure is more than a stretch, per Stepman:

As of now, the Los Angeles mayoral runoff would seem to be down to incumbent Democrat Karen Bass and the surging upstart Republican Spencer Pratt, with leftist candidate Nithya Raman taking the third spot. That would cut Raman out of the general election.

Raman cried on election night and certainly seemed convinced that she’d lost.

But since election day, new batches of mail-in votes have continued to trickle in for Raman. Even more curiously, electoral prediction markets have swung strongly in her favor.

JUST IN: Nithya Raman soars to a 71% chance of advancing to the LA mayoral runoff, as officials continue processing mail-in ballots. pic.twitter.com/P2rkmeWMU9

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