Someone tell California the election was last week

California is still counting votes at a glacial pace, with less than 76% of votes counted statewide as of Monday evening. According to the New York Times election results trackerThere are still nine House races in California where we don’t know who won, along with nine Senate races, 21 State Assembly races, and two of the 10 statewide ballot propositions. In 43 races in the House of Representatives, Senate and Assembly, California has not even counted 70% of the votes.

One week after the election, there is not a single race where the state has even counted 90% of the votes. By comparison, Florida, the third most populous state in the country and spanning two time zones, publicly reported 93% of the vote on election night, 90 minutes after the polls closed.

California is as incompetent at counting votes as it is at addressing homelessness, the housing crisis and crime. California mails ballots to every voter and then extends election deadlines to accommodate lazy voters. Despite the fact that voters receive these ballots months before “Election Day,” California still counts ballots that arrive a week late.

Lazy counties are also given lax “deadlines,” with the state giving them a full month to submit results, leading to many counties taking several days off from counting. Democratic Contra Costa County, for example, stopped counted down and taken on Friday evening three days off before counting resumes Tuesday morning. The only way this could better reflect California’s terrible decision-making is if the state got a bunch of liberal nonprofits involved attack of counting the votes and did not bother to check their progress.

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Not content with ruining their own state, California Democrats are now consistently undermining confidence in elections by pushing forward results that could flip control of the House of Representatives and change the direction of the country. Try to imagine what would happen if California became a presidential swing state again (the state is now about as competitive as the former swing state of Florida). We may not know the results of California’s competitive House races until now after Thanksgiving.

If California Democrats can’t do something as basic as count votes in a timely manner, it’s no surprise that they can’t address the poverty, housing, homelessness, drug addiction and education crises that have plagued the state for years. California remains the gold standard for terribly run states, with a government that is as lazy as it is incompetent.