Over 2 million ballots still uncounted in California

[kpitcher]

One week after the election there are still 2 million ballots uncounted. With Bernie losing by 400,000 votes it's possible he could actually come out ahead. 3 counties called for hillary have flipped since last week.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-one-week-later-almost-2-million-1465952696-htmlstory.html

[luctor-et-emergo]

One week after the election there are still 2 million ballots uncounted. With Bernie losing by 400,000 votes it's possible he could actually come out ahead. 3 counties called for hillary have flipped since last week.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-one-week-later-almost-2-million-1465952696-htmlstory.html

Do you have any clue how fishy that sounds. As a foreigner who always watches the US piss on the elections of other countries... This is quite funny. All our votes here in the Netherlands are counted by hand (we don't have electronic voting anymore since we took notice of the 2000 elections in your country.) and it rarely takes more than 3 hours after the polls close for all of the results come in. Anyone is welcome to watch the count in ANY polling station.

I frankly don't understand how that can take a week or longer. Or, I do, but that's not a very good reason.

[Zippyjuan]

One week after the election there are still 2 million ballots uncounted. With Bernie losing by 400,000 votes it's possible he could actually come out ahead. 3 counties called for hillary have flipped since last week.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-one-week-later-almost-2-million-1465952696-htmlstory.html

Over 20% of those voting were mail in ballots and most of those sent in during the final days (ballots need to be post marked by the day of the election- not received- to be counted). That left a lot of hand counting.

Percentages for Sanders/ Clinton have not been changing much statewide. Also have to note that in order to vote for Clinton/ Sanders, you needed to be a registered Democrat or be an independent who requests a Democratic ballot. 43% are registered Democrats and 20% are independents. http://www.ppic.org/main/publication_show.asp?i=526

Let's figure half of those ballots were cast in the Democratic primary- the rest being either Republican or Independents who did not request a Democratic ballot. That leaves about a million. Sanders needs to get 400,000 more of those than Clinton does or at least 700,000 or seventy percent of those not counted yet. He received 44% of those already counted.

Can he hit the 70% mark? Theoretically, he could possibly pull out a win. But it is incredibly unlikely at this point. He hasn't polled 70% anywhere. Los Angeles, San Diego, and Riverside County (the southern part of the state) represent most of the uncounted voted.

[Ronin Truth]

"Those who cast the votes, decide nothing. Those who count the votes, decide everything." -- Joseph Stalin