The continued insistence that early mail-in ballots - which made up only about a third of all ballots - are somehow more legitimate than mail-in ballots cast close to or on Election Day is absurd. There is no reason to believe the first group of ballots is somehow more "real" than the later, larger group of ballots. Raman did well with people who voted later (and there were more of them), while Pratt did well with people who voted earlier. There is nothing any more suspicious about the first fact than about than the second.

This aged horrifically. California politicians dunked on Elon and helped drive out SpaceX, Tesla jobs, engineers, suppliers, and the tax base. Now SpaceX is headed for a $1.75T IPO. “Message received” may be the most expensive political own-goal in California history.

Breaking News: The California Supreme Court has denied the State of California's petition for review and request to stay the Palisades Fire Litigation. The Supreme Court denied the State's request to overturn the trial court's order overruling the State's demurrer to the plaintiffs' Master Complaint. This means that the fire victims' case against the State can proceed towards trial. Discovery has just begun. Justice is coming for the Palisades Fire victims. @spencerpratt @Hotshot_Movie @JeremyCom @LeonardFiles @AleneTchek

Let's say the quiet part out loud: unhoused Angelenos CAN vote. Some people are looking at unhoused Angelenos legally registering to vote and asking whether those votes should count. Not because they’re ineligible, and not because they broke the law. Just because they’re homeless.

Why is California so slow at counting votes? Here’s Sen. Padilla, the former CA Secretary of State: “For starters, you have to consider the volume. There's more registered voters in California than there are people in Florida. So even if it was just a 50% turnout, it's 11.5 million ballots, more combined than Iowa, Rhode Island, Connecticut.” “Second, it’s a huge amount of vote by mail, and so if you want safe, secure elections…you should run all the safeguards, including but not limited to signature verification, so all that takes a little bit of time, too.” “Third, California is one of the states that allows ballots to come in a couple days after the election. As long as it's postmarked on or before, it should count. It shouldn't be eliminated, because the postal service may be a little bit slow, especially for members serving overseas.”

JUST IN: The proposition that would permanently extend the temporary millionaire tax increases passed by California voters with 2012's Prop 30 and extended by 12 years with 2016's Prop 55, is eligible for the ballot (this is separate from the billionaire wealth tax)

We asked @Hotshot_Movie why California is failing to get its wildfires under control and what we can do about it. It turns out the answer is really simple — do brush clearance.

Postal Service won’t deliver mail ballots for states that don’t hand over voter lists, under plan for Trump directive cnn.com/2026/06/10/politics/…

Much has been said about the vote on Skid Row in Los Angeles. Skid Row is defined by Google Maps as the area bounded by Main/Alameda/3rd/7th. Here are precinct winner maps of the area in 2022 and 2026. The number of votes is up from 2022 - both there (133%) & overall (149%).

A close friend of mine is cancelling his voter registration today. He is convinced Spencer Pratt was robbed of the election. I explained to him that in California we count absentees first (which skew older and more conservative) and election day voters are younger and more Democratic. The slow count is largely because of policies to maximize participation, including postmarking a ballot on Election Day. Regardless, we need to figure out in California how we can get the vote counted faster and results tabulated so it does not drag on. We should make the investments in operational improvements and resources in the wealthiest state in the nation. It is worth spending the resources to get the vast majority of the vote counted within 48 hours. Right now the system is eroding trust and spawning conspiracy theories.

We understand there's a candidate at our Administrative HQ in Norwalk talking about ballot processing. Meanwhile, we are here at the Ballot Processing Center where the votes are actually counted.