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Why is California vote counting so damn slow? - Kevin Drum

Why does California take so long to count votes? I wanted to find out once and for all, so I started to dig. And I got nowhere. The universal answer was always something like California is a big, complex state that wants everyone to vote. That takes a while. Please. Voting is complex everywhere; there are other big states; and…

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