Renowned Pollster Nate Silver Calls California Election Lag 'Failed State S**t'

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With a glut of mail-in ballots and cushy timeline for counties to process them, learning who wins California races can be quite the waiting game. Famed political pollster Nate Silver lambasted California’s lengthy ballot-counting process in a series of pointed X posts, where he compared the system to “failed state s**t.” “The fact that California elections often can’t be resolved for weeks is kind of insane and not common in other electoral systems around the world,” he wrote early Tuesday