{"id":1751434,"date":"2022-11-25T12:15:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T17:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1751434"},"modified":"2022-11-25T12:18:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T17:18:03","slug":"california-still-has-250000-uncounted-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-still-has-250000-uncounted-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"California Still Has 250,000 Uncounted Ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcalifornia-still-has-250000-uncounted-ballots%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1751434&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/California-Has-Over-250000-Ballots-Which-Still-Havent-Been-Counted.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>As the media focuses on Arizona\u2019s handling of the midterm election, California still has over 250,000 uncounted ballots across the state.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>America, the world\u2019s technological superpower, still needs to count all the votes from the 2022 midterms amid issues with machines, amongst other things.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of the uncounted ballots are from mail-in votes, with Sacramento County failing to count 84,000 mail-in ballots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanksgiving is upon us, and California will still have at least 250,000 leftover uncounted ballots after the holiday,\u201d Rob Pyers, research director for the non-partisan California Target Book, wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>The most outstanding ballots were Sacramento with 89,000, followed by Placer County with just under 39,000 left.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles County came in third with 15,105.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining ballots represent a tiny fraction of the votes cast in California, but why is it taking so long?<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfetched.com\/kari-lake-files-lawsuit-demanding-maricopa-county-prove-election-integrity\/\">Kari Lake Files Lawsuit Demanding Maricopa County Prove Election Integrity<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, if you remember, in 2020, California, along with other states, began mailing votes to all registered voters. As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/california-still-has-more-than-250000-uncounted-ballots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">notes<\/a>, that practice became permanent in 2021, and ballots postmarked on or before Election Day must be accepted for up to seven days after the polls close.<\/p>\n<p>California, with 22 million registered voters, mean millions of ballots come in by mail.<\/p>\n<p>Five million people voted by mail in the golden state in 2020 \u2013 87% of the total votes.<\/p>\n<p>Although this year was a smaller percentage, it is still a large number.<\/p>\n<p>The state would continue to process votes until December 8, CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/11\/16\/politics\/california-midterm-election-counting-house-control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This means results will not be certified until December 16.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a huge electorate and in some of the counties \u2013 LA County, Orange County, even Kern County where the [GOP Rep. David] Valadao race is \u2013 there are a lot of people living there and a lot of ballots that have to be counted,\u201d Christian Grose, academic director at the USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy, told CNN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith that \u2018week after\u2019 deadline, really the counting starts in earnest now. They really will be finishing the counting in the next week or two instead of the immediate day after Election Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also worth noting more than 100,000 mail-in ballots were<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/nation\/california-rejected-100000-mail-in-ballots-because-of-mistakes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> rejected<\/a> by California election officials during the March presidential primary in 2020, according to data obtained by The Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the media focuses on Arizona\u2019s handling of the midterm election, California still has over 250,000 uncounted ballots across the state. 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