{"id":1048,"date":"2026-06-09T20:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/california-relocation-journal.com\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2026-06-09T20:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T20:00:13","slug":"californias-slow-vote-count-faces-changes-as-supreme-court-decision-on-late-ballots-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/california-relocation-journal.com\/?p=1048","title":{"rendered":"California\u2019s slow vote count faces changes as Supreme Court decision on late ballots looms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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California\u2019s slow vote counting process \u2014 still underway and causing friction after last week\u2019s primary \u2014 may be forced to change before November\u2019s midterm elections, as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to rule on whether mail ballots must be received by election day to count.<\/p>\n

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Whether those changes will speed things up \u2014 and help tamp down baseless claims from President Trump and others that the slow count is evidence of fraud \u2014 will depend on a variety of factors, election experts said, including how the high court rules, how state lawmakers and local elections officials respond, and whether they push any additional steps to quicken the count.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all on the edge of our seats, waiting to see what the Supreme Court does,\u201d said Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re certainly planning for a bad Supreme Court decision in this case, but we don\u2019t really know all of our options for how to respond until we see the court\u2019s decision,\u201d said Assemblymember Gail Pellerin (D-Santa Cruz), chair of the Assembly Elections Committee and a former top elections official in Santa Cruz County.<\/p>\n

Pellerin said she has been working on contingency plans with other state officials \u2014 including some from the offices of Gov. Gavin Newsom, Secretary of State Shirley Weber and Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta \u2014 and has requested $35 million in state funds to educate voters on any new midterm deadlines, though that funding has not been appropriated.<\/p>\n

Federal law has, since 1872, set \u201celection day\u201d as the first Tuesday following a Monday in November, and gives Congress oversight over elections for the president and members of Congress. However, most authority for running elections falls to the states.<\/p>\n

California currently provides a grace period for ballots to be counted as long as they are postmarked by and received within seven days of election day. More than a dozen states have similar laws that allow for counting late-arriving ballots, and most states accept such mail ballots from members of the military who are stationed overseas.<\/p>\n

In March, the nation\u2019s high court heard arguments about a five-day grace period in Mississippi, with the court\u2019s conservative majority appearing skeptical. Many observers expect from those arguments that the high court will rule, by the end of this month, that ballots \u2014 at least for federal races \u2014 must be received by election day to count.<\/p>\n

That outcome \u2014 in the case Watson vs. Republican National Committee \u2014 is considered likely but not assured, and some elections experts believe the high court has little legal precedent to support such a conclusion.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is a bogus interpretation of the statute,\u201d said Rick Hasen, an election law expert and director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA Law. \u201cIt violates what the statute says as a matter of text and history, and just how it\u2019s been understood since the Civil War basically.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hasen and others also doubt that such a change would have much impact on the speed of California\u2019s vote counting process, given that huge volumes of mail ballots that are placed in ballot drop boxes or arrive at processing facilities on or just before election day would still count \u2014 and would still drag the counting process out for days after the election. <\/p>\n

In 2024, California counted more than 406,000 late-arriving mail ballots, but they represented only about 2.5% of the statewide total.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main bottleneck is really not ballots that arrive after election day. The bottleneck is ballots arriving before or on election day,\u201d Hasen said. \u201cSo I don\u2019t think the Watson case \u2014 however it comes out \u2014 is going to appreciably change California\u2019s timing on when they\u2019ll get enough ballots counted in a close race for it to be able to be called by news organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, state and local elections officials are preparing for changes \u2014 and looking for other ways to speed up the vote count, which, as of Monday, had resulted in more than 7.7 million ballots counted from last week\u2019s primary, but more than 1.7 million left to process.<\/p>\n

State plans unclear<\/h2>\n

If the Supreme Court were to rule that votes cast in federal elections must be received by election day, California would need to respond quickly. <\/p>\n

It would need to craft a messaging campaign to inform millions of voters of the new rules, and determine when to tell voters they must mail their ballots by in order for their votes to count, experts said. That calculation may be shaped in part by efforts by the Trump administration to assert federal control over the mail ballot process through the U.S. Postal Service, which California and other states are fighting in court.<\/p>\n

California officials may also need to determine whether they will create a \u201cbifurcated counting process\u201d with different rules for primary and general elections and different rules for federal races and state and local races on the same ballots, Alexander said, as a narrow Supreme Court ruling may not apply to them all equally.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat\u2019s a big policy decision that lawmakers will need to make, and I\u2019m not sure how that would go,\u201d Alexander said, citing a lack of detailed public plans from state and local elections officials.<\/p>\n

Weber \u2014 who urged voters to cast ballots early in last week\u2019s election \u2014 did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Brandon Richards, a spokesperson for Newsom, said the governor\u2019s office doesn\u2019t comment on \u201chypotheticals,\u201d but that Newsom \u201cis planning for all eventualities, including but not limited to attacks on our democracy and disruptions in our elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bonta\u2019s office said it is \u201cin communication with election officials and actively preparing for the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court could require changes to California\u2019s election procedures,\u201d but that it could not provide details.<\/p>\n

Dean Logan, head of the L.A. County Registrar-Recorder\/County Clerk\u2019s office, said he was \u201cnot in a position to discuss specific contingency planning details\u201d given the high court has yet to rule, but that his office \u201cis closely monitoring the case and has begun evaluating potential impacts to election administration.\u201d<\/p>\n

If changes are required by the court, Logan said his office \u201cis prepared to undertake a comprehensive voter education and outreach effort to ensure voters understand any new requirements, deadlines, or voting options,\u201d which would be \u201cmultilingual, multi-channel, and designed to reach voters directly across Los Angeles County, particularly in communities that rely heavily on voting by mail and those that have historically done so.\u201d<\/p>\n

Funds needed for faster count<\/h2>\n

Alexander\u2019s group has backed Pellerin\u2019s request for $35 million for a marketing campaign to encourage voters to send midterm ballots in early, and advocated for another $55 million in state funding to support county efforts to build up their vote processing capabilities.<\/p>\n

H.D. Palmer, a spokesperson for the California Department of Finance, said it would be \u201cpremature\u201d to comment on those requests, but \u201cdiscussions have been underway and are continuing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both Alexander and Hasen said California should be investing more in its ballot processing capabilities even if the current process is fair and secure and the claims of fraud are baseless, because those claims have succeeded in diminishing trust.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the one hand, this is a manufactured crisis. There is nothing that is intrinsically bad about a slow count for a race,\u201d Hasen said. \u201cOn the other hand, we live in an era of profound distrust in institutions and in the integrity of elections, in no small part because of Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2012, slightly over half of all California votes were cast via mail ballots. However, that number has increased dramatically since, thanks in part to an expansion during the COVID-19 pandemic, and nearly 89% of ballots were cast by mail in last year\u2019s special election.<\/p>\n

Alexander said that throughout that same period, California lawmakers have passed new laws to expand access to the ballot but have not provided counties with the necessary funding to keep up with the volume \u2014 meaning \u201ccounties are left holding the bag.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alexander said California should fix that by providing consistent state funding for new ballot counting machines, more modern and efficient county processing facilities, and an expansion of a program backed by Pellerin and available in some counties already that allows voters dropping off ballot envelopes in person to essentially convert those ballots into in-person votes on the spot \u2014 which Alexander called a \u201chybrid\u201d option that saves counties a huge amount of processing time.<\/p>\n

She said the state spent millions to educate voters on new COVID-related vote-by-mail protocols and deadlines in 2020, and it led to both record turnout and a faster count \u2014 proving access and speed are not mutually exclusive.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re being asked to make a false choice,\u201d Alexander said. \u201cIt is possible to have accessible, secure, reliable and verified elections, and also an accelerated vote count.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Times staff writer David G. Savage<\/i> in Washington<\/i> contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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