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1. How long will it take before California is still counting votes?
California’s vote-counting process is one of the longest in the nation. As of noon on Saturday, November 9, California still had 10 House seats undeclared. There are several hotly contested ballot proposals yet to be announced, including one to raise the minimum wage. As of the 9th, there were nearly 5 million ballots uncounted, and county officials have 30 days to count the ballots and report them to the Secretary of State.
The long and time-consuming voting process in California may be caused by the following reasons: 1. Large voter numbers: California has more than 22 million registered voters. 2. Mail-in ballots: About 89% of votes in the 2024 primary election will be cast by mail. Signatures on mail-in ballots must be verified, and if they do not match the signatures on file, county election officials are obligated to try to contact those voters to verify their signatures. 3. Provisional Ballots: Voters who cannot immediately confirm their registration on Election Day will receive provisional ballots, which are usually counted after Election Day. 4. Same-day voter registration: If poll workers cannot confirm they are eligible, they will be issued a provisional ballot that will only be counted after eligibility is confirmed.
2. Levi’s heir Daniel Lurie promises to make San Francisco safer as mayor
Levi’s heir apparent Daniel Lurie, who has never held public office, promised on November 9 that as San Francisco’s elected mayor he would do what politicians before him had failed to do – clean up the city’s streets and crack down on open-air drugs. market.
Lurie said he wants to build more housing, crack down on drug dealers, get homeless people off the streets, remove nonprofits and department heads who fail to do their jobs and focus on results. As mayor, he will oversee more than 30,000 employees and a $15 billion annual budget. Lurie plans to beef up the city’s police presence, declare a fentanyl emergency, create 1,500 shelter beds within six months and drastically streamline the permitting process so small businesses can thrive.
Lurie, 47, said he plans to put his holdings into a trust and talk to the city attorney about giving up the mayor’s $380,000 annual salary.
3. Trump criticizes Newsom’s “Trump Line of Defense” attempt
Former US President Trump won this year’s presidential election with a landslide victory. California Governor Newsom called for a special session on the 7th (last Thursday) to protect California’s far-left policies from the impact of Trump’s second term.
Trump responded on Truth Social on the 8th (last Friday):
“Newsom is trying to destroy our country’s beautiful California. For the first time in history, more people are moving out of California than moving in.” “People are being forced to leave because of crazy policy decisions by him and others, like ridiculously moving Millions of gallons of water are diverted daily from the north to the Pacific Ocean instead of being free for use in towns, cities and farms throughout California.” He added: “They have made it impossible to make affordable cars, homelessness has grown catastrophically and unchecked, and the price of everything, especially ‘groceries’, is out of control. Additionally, as ‘Agent’ for America’s voting and elections, I will require voter ID and proof of citizenship as a necessary part of the voting process!”
