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    California primary's lesson for pundits: Don't speak too soon in the age of mail-in voting

    LOS ANGELES — In the hours after polls closed in the closely watched California midterms on June 7, reviews from pundits were quick to come in. Turnout: abysmal. Progressive reforms: rejected. Ex-Republican Rick Caruso: the surprise star of the night in liberal Los Angeles. But with the proliferation of mail-in voting, messages from California voters now arrive with a lag — one that hasn't ...
    by Jasper Goodman, Los Angeles Times Jun 26, 2022 5 minutes
    Left; Mayoral candidate Karen Bass casts her ballot at Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Mall on June 7.

    LOS ANGELES — In the hours after polls closed in the closely watched California midterms on June 7, reviews from pundits were quick to come in.

    Turnout: abysmal. Progressive reforms: rejected. Ex-Republican Rick Caruso: the surprise star of the night in liberal Los Angeles.

    But with the proliferation of mail-in voting, messages from California voters now arrive with a lag — one that hasn't proven friendly to the quick takes of social media and cable news.

    "We used to have a single Election Day, and often have decisive results for most contests on election night," said Kim Alexander, president of the nonpartisan California Voter Foundation. "Now, we have election month, and a month of vote counting."

    Reforms have severed the state's electorate into three distinct tranches: early

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