Source: Election results and race calls are from The Associated Press. By The New York Times election results team: Michael Andre, Neil Berg, Matthew Bloch, Lily Boyce, Irineo Cabreros, Nico Chilla, Nate Cohn,

Election law expert Hans von Spakovsky says California's slow vote counting stems from mass mail voting, a seven-day ballot window, and cure periods.

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Nor is it unusual for President Donald Trump to complain about the pace of the count and allege fraud, as he did Thursday. It’s something he’s done repeatedly in the past. RELATED: President Trump slams California elections,

Mail-in ballots and security measures contribute to counting delays in California's close contests, an election expert says, and last-minute voters in the governor's race may slow things down further.

The nonpartisan California Voter Foundation is encouraging people who have not voted yet to take the mail ballot they received at home to a local vote center and ask to submit it as a regular ballot,

Trump then compared California’s vote counting to that of Spain, with California having a population of about 39 million people compared to Spain’s 48 million. “I’m not a