The AP called California once "100% of the precincts were counted", but WTF does that mean? The counting isn't anywhere close to being 100% done in CA.

Here in CA we don't have election day, we have election week, which means we are still counting votes (lots and lots of votes). 3 million votes might still be uncounted (see below).

Cathleen Decker, Politics analyst/columnist for @latimes, recently tweeted:

And....six minutes left in the California primary vote. Weeks left in the California primary vote count. — Cathleen Decker (@cathleendecker) June 8, 2016



LATimes - Wednesday's big question: How many uncounted California ballots?

With California's evolution to a state where most voters cast their ballots by mail, political watchers have concluded that election day has turned into election week . The independent Target Book, a publication that handicaps congressional and legislative races, called it "probable" that as many as 3 million ballots could remain uncounted by time Tuesday night ended. And traditionally, said the analysts, those ballots tend to have come from Democrats, young and Latino voters. As of early Wednesday morning, about 5 million ballots had already been counted, but there was no official word on how many remained. State election law gives counties 30 days to finish their canvassing of votes cast. Secretary of State Alex Padilla must receive certified results from each of California's 58 counties by July 8.

Geez, our state is always holding its primary when the races are effectively over, so I guess everyone forgot that we NEVER GET THE RESULTS quickly. Why didn't anyone prominent in the MSM remind everyone of this? Why didn't they mention this when they called CA? Hmmmm ....

Take a look at the current results in CA according to the New York Times:

Clinton 1,940,580

Sanders 1,502,043

Others (some small number)

Total 3,475,720 votes,

100% reporting (22,359 of 22,359 precincts)

Note: I suspect that 100% of the precincts counted means for the votes that were cast at the polls on June 7.

What would happen if 3 million uncounted votes went to Bernie? 1.5 million + 3 million = 4.5 million, so Bernie would win the state, that's all.

Ok, I'm not so optimistic as to think that ALL of the the remaining votes will go to Bernie, but the point that I am trying to make is that CA is still in play. CA is not over. And the votes that remain to be counted are most likely heavily in Bernie's favor ...

Here's another data point: In 2008, there were a total of 5,066,992 votes cast in the Democratic primary, according to http://www.electproject.org/2008p

And another:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/4n84nb/la_county_r...

So far we know for just 5 counties in CA that need to count provisional ballots

570,000 ballots to be counted in LA County

285,000 in San Diego County

95,000 in San Bernadino County

128,415 in Riverside County

245,070 in Orange County (58,000 VBM received in mail, 110,500 VBM turned in at polls, 61,370 provisionals; that totals 229,870, but that's all the info on the website) Running total: 1,323,485

Finally, I don't believe that the NYT updates its data after the election has been called. Here is another URL that can be used to get numbers that are usually more accurate: The Green Papers - California Democrat

Again, the counting isn't anywhere close to being 100% done in CA. Listen to the LA Times, not the NY Times.

It's not over till the fat lady sings ...