LATimes on the California vote count:
But Tuesday's expected volume is only part of the reason the results will probably be delayed. About half of the ballots are expected to be cast either by mail or by voters who drop off mail-in ballots at precincts. Those ballots can take longer to tally because elections officials are required to check signatures against the registration file.State law allows officials to tabulate those ballots beginning one week before the election, and the totals are the first results released on election night.
But when the polls close, officials turn to counting the precinct votes, leaving the rest of the mail-in ballots and the laborious checking process until after the traditional votes are counted.
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