I’m tempted to say “they voted for it” but I wonder — did they really?
California is the testing ground for every electoral manipulation project there is - driver registration, same-day registration, non-purging of voter rolls, automatic mass mail-in ballots, ballot-harvesting, government-funded NGO “get-out-the-vote” schemes, corporate electronic voting machines, etc. etc.
And when Californians actually voted, in large numbers, against gay marriage - a leftist court just struck it down, and they got it anyway.
“...non-purging of voter rolls,”
I left California this summer and immediately received a document from the state questioning if I still lived in California, and indicating I had to verify my address or I would be removed. I was actually tempted to fill it out with my new Texas address to see if they were dumb enough to send me a ballot. I guess they only want Democrats voting in perpetuity.
You list valid points for us to question just how blue California really is. It may be that we should feel sorry for most Californians.