I don’t celebrate anything about the Karmelo conviction. I’m happy justice was done, but the whole thing is sad. One young life gone. Another effectively over. Groups of black people who’ve been lied to about everything their whole lives will be mad about it.
Whole thing sucks.
Counterpoint: totally understandable for people to claim fraud when a state takes a god damn month to count ballots, and races inevitably shift blue the longer counting goes.
Other large states like Texas and Florida do not do this. European countries do not do this.
Part of running legitimate elections is avoiding even the appearance of impropriety, and California has failed to do that.