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Yes, officials are still counting California ballots.

And no, we still don’t have final results for any of the elections — although as my colleagues reported, Senator Bernie Sanders’s big bet on California appears to have paid off.

Still, one thing I woke up thinking about on Wednesday morning was the thousands of voters — around the state, but mostly in Los Angeles County — who were greeted by hourslong lines when they showed up to participate in their democracy.

[Read more about how young people and Latinos showed up for Mr. Sanders.]

I called Rick Hasen, a professor of law and political science at the University of California, Irvine, to get some context.