A left-leaning Los Angeles Times editorial board member defended California still counting votes nearly a month after Election Day this week, saying the state's "painstaking process of collecting and checking" ballots was a testament to election integrity.
"Could some counties process and count ballots faster? Maybe. Some state legislators are interested in finding ways to expedite the process," LA Times editorial board member Carla Hall wrote this week.
"But what’s more important is that the slow pace has gone hand in hand with allowing voters ample time and a few ways to get their ballots in — and then to fix issues that might prevent them from being counted. The painstaking process of collecting and checking these ballots speaks both to election integrity and to giving voters access and opportunities to vote."
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