Commentary
With the Nov. 8 election already one week ago, we already are conditioned to accept that some final results will not be known until Dec. 16, five weeks later. Counting proceeds at a crawl in counties up and down the state, and those among us with housebroken political sentiments are expected to be impressed at the diligent performance of our election professionals.
In truth, however, no major nation on earth takes this long to count ballots, and no state in America takes as long as California to count ballots. As of Nov. 16, there were still at least a dozen races for a seat in the U.S. Congress that remained undecided. Seven of them, more than half, are here in California….