They mail them a month ahead of time.
Developing countries where people struggle with food and sanitation have this figured out and California rightfully deserves to be mocked by them.
Voting is for adults and we don't need to cripple the system to cater to people so irresponsible they can't drop a piece of paper in a box on time. If that's too hard you don't deserve to vote or there is something more nefarious at play.
Stop trying to push a disenfranchisement position. It will never be acceptable. Maybe get therapy to deal with the feelings your have about needing quick tabulations? Solving your feelings through disenfranchisement is externalizing whatever inner demons you're fighting.
If your ballot shows up a year later does it deserve to be counted? No, it doesn't.
You seem to be taking the position of the end of Trading Places, screaming "turn those machines back on!"
You set a deadline. Everything past the deadline is discarded. California allows for an 8-day buffer, which is artificial.
Lobby to mail the ballots 8 days earlier if that would make you happy.
Do you leave your servers wide open with all ports exposed? Do you ask "prove to me we've been owned before" when you're told to put a firewall in place?
I wouldn't want to disenfranchise people sending ICMP traffic my way.
> Do you leave your servers wide open with all ports exposed? Do you ask "prove to me we've been owned before" when you're told to put a firewall in place?
The equivalent in this situation would be that you're freaking out about there being tons of "hackers" currently in the servers despite the firewall already being in place, but refuse to prove it and instead insult people and throw out barely-veiled political jabs.