Election workers process ballots in Los Angeles, November 4, 2025.(Daniel Cole/Reuters)

I don't have that much to add to our editorial and what Jeff and Jim have written about California's shoddy, shady, perennially slow-moving vote-counting system. I believe we have an obligation to accept the results of elections unless and until we have hard evidence showing that they've been stolen, and a lot of people on the right have gotten way ahead of themselves on that front with Spencer Pratt's loss. But I blame nobody for being suspicious of what happened, because the system is designed to do the opposite of instill confidence in its integrity, and Democrats getting the precise ...

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