And yet, it’s hard to ignore the cautionary tale that Iowa’s fiasco provides for California, where a pair of significant changes to the voting process will be implemented in next month’s statewide primary. Ballots begin arriving in mailboxes across California before the Iowa caucuses or early primary states have served their time-honored tradition of culling the presidential herd. And it now routinely takes elections officials most, or all, of the 30-day window provided in state law to fully count all ballots. Five California counties adopted the new voting process in 2018 and 10 more have done so this year. But it’s a lot more complicated than selecting candidates, and elections officials are often leery of sweeping changes that happen all at once.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 05, 2020 13:02 UTC