[Dave W]

it always takes a month for California to count all its votes. Always. This is nothing new. It shouldn’t take so long, but it does.

California allows mail in ballots to arrive by the Friday or Saturday after the election to be counted. A majority of Californians vote by mail because they want to. It’s popular. So every signature must be verified, etc etc etc.

The state is not Delaware sized and total votes are more than the population of over 30 states in a general election.

[Political Junkie Too]

I lived in California for 30 years and never had to wait weeks before getting the results.

Fortunately, I moved away before mail-in voting began. Unfortunately, I was there for the very first "jungle" top-two primary, in my case between Pete Stark and Eric Swalwell.

-PJ

[Persevero]

They absolutely do not verify signatures.

[rellic]

“A majority of Californians vote by mail because they want to. It’s popular.”

You know why it is so popular?
It is because most of us don’t like listening to Foaming at the mouth Democrats extolling the virtues of their Candidates while we wait in line to vote.

[StAnDeliver]

"The state is not Delaware sized and total votes are more than the population of over 30 states in a general election."

Then they should not permit mail-in ballots after a month before any election, furthermore they should begin counting those ballots at midnight of the beginning of election day.

There are no excuses in election management, any deviancy from best practices established in the last century (paper; record; optical not digital; limited absentee fulfilling mandated reason; extremely limited vote-by-mail; no same-day registration; no open primaries) is directed at fraud.