Where did you read that?
http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/
The ballots to be processed in CA and WA have been reported in various interviews with state election officers. If you look at the site above, a bit over 13 million votes were counted in CA for 2012. They currently have about 9.5 million in the tallies for 2016, so I would expect the numbers for 2016 to rise quite a bit.