Eight days after its primary election, California officials are still counting ballots. That in itself isn’t a big deal — many states give election officials more than a week to tally votes, and ...

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Other states with vote-by-mail manage to count much more quickly. By Maia Spoto California’s election process is notoriously time-consuming, in part because of the state’s reliance on mail-in voting, ...

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