Quote Originally Posted by Gelston View Post
This was what he told me about it...

"Ugh. I was there. In the district. Working several races.

1) AP got it wrong. 100% of precincts had not reported in on election night. In fact, almost every news source called nearly every race in the 39th and 49th districts too close to call for a week after Election Night.

2) In California, nearly everyone can vote by mail at any time, and as long as the ballot is postmarked by Election Day, it is still valid. This means voters can mail in a ballot on Election Day and that ballot likely won’t get counted for-you guessed it, a week and a half.

3) Republicans usually vote early or on time. Democrats tend to procrastinate.

4) There wasn’t a recount in Young Kim’s district.

5) It sucks. It’s stupid. But it happened. And it is not outside the realm of possibility.

So since I was there, and I worked it, and I saw it first hand, those are my thoughts."
Yeah this is all correct. (Though, interestingly enough, in other states it's often the opposite in terms of whose votes get in when)

And we may as well just get used to it. Voting by mail is becoming more and more popular, which not only means that the timeline for knowing how these races are going is getting extended, but it's also harder and harder to predict how many ballots we'll actually get.