Henry Fung (also on bluesky)

engineer and transit rider, NEVER ON THREADS

[Henry Fung (also on bluesky) @calwatch]

Someone needs to go to the board of supervisors at their next meeting and yell at them about this. It actually works, as it did with LA County in 2022.

[Rob Pyers @rpyers]

Alameda County, one of the largest reservoirs of deep blue votes in California, has not updated since 11:30PM on election night.

[Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk @LACountyRRCC]

The second post-Election Night ballot count update includes 81,486 ballots processed since the first post-Election Night update.

[Henry Fung (also on bluesky) @calwatch]

@rpyers I assume one of the steps in verification is prior to opening the envelope, to look at the postmark and if there is not one or if the date is after June 2, to throw it out as it is not valid. @lacountyrrcc

[Henry Fung (also on bluesky) @calwatch]

@rpyers 56k votes came today but I would expect that number to keep dropping. Maybe 50k still floating in the USPS total.

[nude antarctica mod @progregressions]

i honestly just think it's that janet mills did not actually want to run in the first place at all

the fact that even now she's just saying she's on the ballot instead of actually re-launching the campaign is a tell

[Henry Fung (also on bluesky) @calwatch]

@Ethanfracisco Isn’t that against the new law that passed which said they have to update by Thursday? @rpyers @paulmitche11

[Henry Fung (also on bluesky) @calwatch]

@UnrigLA Can you track Measure ER as well? It is creeping up but not sure if there are enough votes to pass, although I would assume LA city turnout may be higher than the rest of the county. If this passes the fire tax will be much tougher in November.

[Henry Fung (also on bluesky) @calwatch]

@ferald_gord St Louis is much worse.

[Henry Fung (also on bluesky) @calwatch]

Large counties in California could follow the lead of Placer County which encourages in person voting and their sign scan and go program, which allows voters to sign their ballot off, be scanned immediately, and be tabulated on election night. https://t.co/AmGJeguIZ3

[Henry Fung (also on bluesky) @calwatch]

@UnrigLA This is what I am referring to: https://t.co/6i5H3eXhFZ

[Henry Fung (also on bluesky) @calwatch]

@UnrigLA I think the daily updates is a minor factor. The real issue is we don’t do drop, sign, and scan and don’t encourage voters to vote in person early. RRCC had 250-ish vote centers for Prop 50 and saw three hour long lines at 6 pm on Tuesday, which discourages them from doing fewer.

[Henry Fung (also on bluesky) @calwatch]

@UnrigLA Yes, by context that is right but of course I don’t pay for the edit button.

[Henry Fung (also on bluesky) @calwatch]

@UnrigLA (LA County started doing daily updates in November 2022. Before it was less relevant but in June 2022 there were a lot of issues in Glendale since it was possible that @AraJNajarian would lose and be kicked off the @metrolosangeles board if the count trended against him.)

[Henry Fung (also on bluesky) @calwatch]

@UnrigLA I wanted daily updates, the RRCC pushed back until the Board made them do it.

[Henry Fung (also on bluesky) @calwatch]

@UnrigLA All of our surrounding counties did daily updates and LA was a straggler. They were right to be called out on it. https://t.co/3CdbbkaWVS

[Henry Fung (also on bluesky) @calwatch]

I appreciate that, but the elected BOS makes that decision. Daily tabulation would help improve citizen confidence and would not cost a significant amount more than the existing cost of staffing 600+ vote centers for a few dozen voters each day before Tuesday.

[Henry Fung (also on bluesky) @calwatch]

@UnrigLA As one of those advocates who called the BOS in 2022 to make them do more updates I disagree. Fewer updates lets you see the trend, it allows for better preparation for staff transitioning, and it helps mitigate claims of vote fraud.

[Henry Fung (also on bluesky) @calwatch]

@PatrickRuffini The ballots are working their way through the snake. It just takes time. They already take regular county employees away from their day jobs to staff vote centers and arguably you could send some student workers to do ballot processing, but not sure it is worth it for a week.

[Henry Fung (also on bluesky) @calwatch]

@nikicaga Lake County is always this bad. The state law has made them do updates every Thursday at least.

[Henry Fung (also on bluesky) @calwatch]

Bad news, SCAG CEHD approved it as is, but West Hollywood, Ontario, and South Pasadena wanted to follow the state guidance and not defy them on the two points of difference. It now heads to the Regional Council on July 2.

[Jacob Wasserman @JacobLWasserman]

The draft SB 79 implementation methodology from @SCAGnews is out, and it's got some eyebrow-raising stuff! Thread:

[Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy]

Before people start whining about Joe Rogan not having the experience one would expect from someone joining 60 Minutes, I’ll remind you that Rogan used to have a high profile job in AM radio broadcast journalism in New York City