“Their votes tend to be counted, just culturally, not even sure why, tend to be counted first. And then once the votes that are already there legally are counted, it looks different.”
Votes in California's key elections are still being counted with predictions saying the full tally could take over a month to ascertain. President Trump has called out California, saying Democrats are cheating in an attempt to steal the election as Republican Spencer Pratt vies for the second slot for the LA mayoral race general election with Nithya Raman, and Steve Hilton is currently at the top of the count in the gubernatorial race.
CNN's Dana Bash, however, told viewers not to worry because the first ballots counted will be from the GOP electorate, who are more likely to get their ballots in early or vote in person.
"The dynamic that we saw back in 2020 when states took longer to vote," Bash said, "it looked like Republicans were doing better at the beginning, they tend to vote earlier, their votes tend to be counted, just culturally, not even sure why, tend to be counted first.
"And then once the votes that are already there legally are counted, it looks different."
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Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom revealed that he has a "break glass" emergency plan to prevent Republicans from securing the top two spots in the gubernatorial primary, saying in May that there were "action efforts" behind the scenes.
"I just don't want cheating in our elections," Trump said. "And you see it happening in California. Those numbers are coming down rapidly! They found a lot of mail-in ballots last night, shockingly." California state law allows ballots to be counted even if they come in up to a week after Election Day.
Results from Election Day start pouring out that night, meaning that those who send in ballots after Election Day have a sense which way the votes are leaning when they do so.
Gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton, who led the pack as polls closed Tuesday, told Laura Ingraham of The Ingraham Angle, "A whistleblower told me they had different buckets for ballots after election day, and were told it doesn't have to be postmarked on or before election day — if the date was handwritten that would be okay as well."
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The California Post reports that the county's ballot processing facility has dozens of empty workstations, noting "The scene at the warehouse appeared at odds with the mounting pressure to process hundreds of thousands of remaining ballots." LA County officials had only counted 77,521 ballots by Wednesday night with some 713,180 ballots outstanding.
However, given the rule that any ballots that come in up to a week after Election Day can be counted, more ballots may be on the way.
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