Let’s work backwards through the process:
Before the state holds its primary election in 2022, it has to give candidates the opportunity to file to run;
Before that, it has to create district maps so that those candidates know who and what they’ll actually be running to represent;
And before
But first the state has to get population data from the most recent Census count.
And there’s the rub: California’s next primary election is set for June 7, 2022 and the 2020 Census data that first step is really, really late, partly due to the pandemic.
California can expect some preliminary information to trickle in later this month. That will let us know, for example, whether we as a state are due to lose at least one of 53 congressional seats, as is widely expected.
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Americans shattered records for voting by mail in many states in the 2020 presidential election, a phenomenon that tested existing election laws, new pandemic-related regulations, postal service capacity, voter education efforts and voters’ own resolve.
Some states had more wiggle room in accepting the mail-in votes than others, allowing ballots that were postmarked by election day to come in later, anywhere from the following day to nearly three weeks after. These grace periods became a highly contentious and politicized aspect of the election. The Trump campaign and its allies challenged them all the way up to the US supreme court as part of an overall campaign questioning the legitimacy of mail-in voting.
More eligible Californians voted in November s election than any time since 1952 John Myers © Provided by San Diego Union Tribune Ballots were dropped off on election day in thousands of locations, including the San Diego County election offices. State lawmakers will soon consider making permanent the 2020 law to mail every voter a ballot. (Alejandro Tamayo / San Diego Union-Tribune)
Final election results show almost 17.8 million Californians cast ballots in the election that ended on Nov. 3, the highest percentage of eligible voters to participate in a statewide election since 1952 and the third-highest percentage since 1910.
But this year s participation by 70.8% of eligible voters may be even more historic due to the lower voting age. Since the passage of a constitutional amendment in 1971 to lower the voting age from 21 to 18, no California election has come close to turning out as many eligible voters.