🚨CRITICAL ALERT FOR LA COUNTY
Projections indicate there are several races, including Measure ER, that may be decided on razor thin margins.
A local race may come down to 20 votes.
➡️It is IMPERATIVE that every voter contacted to cure their ballot does so immediately.
To be proactive, check that your ballot has been verified using the steps below.
I just did mine and you can see even though I voted way early and they received my ballot 5/11, my signature was “verified” but my ballot still has not been confirmed counted.
@LACountyRRCC how do we know if our mail in ballot was “counted”. I got notification it was received and accepted and thanking me for voting. Was it actually counted yet? Will I get another update once it is counted?
@LACountyRRCC How do we know our ballot was actually counted? In the past it seems we got notification by ballot Trax that it was “counted”. Now it just says “accepted” or “received”. Do only in person ballots get verified as “counted”?
@Rani_Rant_Fest I care because I live in CA. Many others care because LA is a 💩 hole and if we can turn it around, it speaks volumes to what the rest of the nation can do.
What's more crazy is this is how the system is designed.
California INTENTIONALLY does not count ballots for weeks. And I think it explains the state's broader dysfunction.
Basically, California's voting rules are designed to maximize accessibility at all costs. ALL costs.
Ballots can arrive after Election Day. Signatures can be fixed if they are unclear. Provisional ballots get individually reviewed. Every edge case gets its own process.
And California doesn't trust technology or automation to solve these problems. Signatures are manually reviewed. Voters are contacted when issues arise. Humans review and re-review exceptions. The system is designed around minimizing the chance that a single valid ballot gets rejected.
Other countries count tens of millions of votes in hours, not weeks. They aren't using magic. They simply make different tradeoffs. They rely more on technology, set stricter deadlines, tolerate fewer exceptions, and accept that no system can perfectly accommodate every conceivable scenario.
California makes the opposite choice.
And it's the same philosophy that shows up in housing, infrastructure, permitting, schools, and government generally: endless process, endless exceptions, and worse results.