{"id":37168,"date":"2026-06-05T17:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/37168\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T17:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:27:12","slug":"millions-of-ballots-still-need-to-be-counted-in-california-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/37168\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of ballots still need to be counted in California: What we know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The slog of tallying up votes in California continued Friday as some races hang in the ballots.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Here is where we stand:<\/p>\n

So how many ballots are left to be counted?<\/p>\n

There are an estimated 3.6 million ballots remaining to be counted in California\u2019s primary election, according to information provided by the secretary of state<\/a> at 6 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n

These millions of untallied ballots, made up primarily of vote-by-mail ballots, have the potential to shift the outcomes in several undecided races.<\/p>\n

How many ballots have been processed?<\/p>\n

So far, around 5.6 million ballots<\/a> have been processed in the state. In L.A. County, around 1.4 million ballots have been counted, while some 700,000 still need to be processed, according to the secretary of state.<\/p>\n

Vote-by-mail ballots postmarked on or before election day and received by the county elections official no later than seven days after the election will be counted.<\/p>\n

When do we get information?<\/p>\n

County election officials are required to provide the secretary of state with an updated tally of unprocessed ballots starting two days after election day and continuing every day until the count is complete.<\/p>\n

What are experts saying?<\/p>\n

Election watchdogs have urged patience for the results of this week\u2019s primary, which includes tight races for governor and Los Angeles mayor, and they have stressed that the slow count<\/a> points not to problems or fraud, but to an accurate tally.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe allow people lots of different avenues to vote, and as a result it takes longer to count up all the votes,\u201d said Jessica Levinson, a law professor at Loyola Marymount University. \u201cAnd that\u2019s how it should be. … It\u2019s an argument in favor of making sure the process runs correctly \u2014 not quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

The process has been particularly slow in L.A. County, though experts say that is mostly a result of the county\u2019s massive voter base. Mail-in ballots are also heavily scrutinized with workers verifying signatures and giving voters a chance to remedy the situation if their signature doesn\u2019t match, a process that takes time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re using that level of care because they\u2019re supposed to \u2014 that\u2019s their protocol \u2014 and also because it could make a big difference,\u201d said Kamy Akhavan, the managing director at the USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen some elections in Southern California decided by single digits. And that just means this is going to take time. That can be very frustrating, even annoying, to Angelenos.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The slog of tallying up votes in California continued Friday as some races hang in the ballots. Here…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[738,55,21637,5080,8,21636,306,7584,9,5083,8714,751,17954,495,21634,148,21635,7],"class_list":["post-37168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-ballot","tag-california","tag-county-election-official","tag-election-day","tag-headlines","tag-l-a-county","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-million","tag-news","tag-primary-election","tag-process","tag-race","tag-result","tag-secretary","tag-signature","tag-state","tag-tally","tag-top-stories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116698680172484609","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}