The inexcusable incompetence of California's glacial vote count

California’s primary elections were on Tuesday, yet we will not truly know the results for several weeks, because California’s incompetence in every area of governance extends to elections.

As of 9 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, 13 hours after polls closed Tuesday night, California has counted about 58% of the total votes cast. For comparison, in that same time frame, Iowa, Montana, and South Dakota have counted more than 95% of the votes cast, and New Jersey has counted more than 90%. You can quibble that those states had a head start of a few hours over California, but it’s irrelevant; California won’t have counted more than 95% of the votes by the end of this week.