By
Ed Kilgore,
political columnist for Intelligencer since 2015
Are these California election workers stuffing ballot boxes or just doing a difficult job?
Now we know why so many leading California Democratic elected officials — notably Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta — made such a big deal out of the need for Golden State voters to fill out and send in their mail ballots as early as possible this year. In a letter to state election officials at around the time all of California’s registered voters received mail ballots, Newsom accurately predicted the political consequences of a slow vote count, exacerbated by a logjam of late-arriving ballots:
