If you live in California and want something to be done on time and within its budget, well, you should probably try doing it somewhere other than California.

California has become a model of doing things as slowly and expensive as possible, and no issue so seemingly simple is immune from this. Rob Pyers, the research director for California Target Book, highlighted the latest example: In 2016, the California legislature approved an update to the state’s campaign finance portal. The bill required the new website to be “available for use no later than February 1, 2019” and said it would only “incur one-time costs of $11.6 million to develop, test, and implement.”