75.3% of voters turned out in CA -- giving Hillary 4.2 million more votes than DT.

[pnwmom]

Voters chose her by an almost 2 to 1 margin.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-california-s-ballots-have-all-been-1481163154-htmlstory.html

[yallerdawg]

1. Didn't every registered voter get a ballot mailed to them...

and have weeks to mail it back in, put it in a box, or go down and vote on election day?

This would be the exact opposite of voter suppression - and we see the results!

[pnwmom]

3. I'm not sure it works quite that way (I have relatives there, and I think they

said they weren't signed up for permanent by-mail). But in any case they do make it easy -- and it works.

The only downside is it takes a long time afterwards to count up all those paper mailed-in ballots.

[lunasun]

4. Still it's worth the wait for participation . K&R

[Control-Z]

5. No. We all have the option of mail in ballots.

All it requires is checking a box. And we have a ridiculous number of polling places. Many within walking distance.

[DK504]

14. Exactly

NO polling places in Detroit, but polling places every 2 blocks in LA. I always absentee voted - excellent.

[MrModerate]

8. You have to sign up for mail-in voting in CA, but that's all you have to do.

You can do it at any DMV and I think you can also submit a request via postal mail. I did it at the DMV.

[Control-Z]

17. You can actually do it on line. n/t

.

[quakerboy]

15. No, that was Oregon

[BeyondGeography]

2. Thank you, CA

That's all I have.

[jalan48]

6. "The West is the best"-Jim Morrison.

[Xipe Totec]

7. That's only because there's no voter suppression in CA

DT Says he would've won the popular vote if CA had the same voter suppression laws as Republican controlled states.

[Crash2Parties]

11. He could win any state under those conditions. GOP governors were *bragging* about votor supression

as it happened.

[Xipe Totec]

12. I think that's sorta my point, sarcastically speaking. nt

[ffr]

9. Something to consider in her margin of victory, that 4.2 million

One of my friends who lives there chose to vote for a 3rd party candidate for president, simply because he knew HRC would easily carry California and he wanted to promote another candidate. If you can imagine, there are probably tens or hundreds of thousands of others who voted alike, HRC supporters that voted for another candidate simply because of the odds.

[Crash2Parties]

10. Blue State

scan-tron style ballots
paper audit trail
massive number of polling places
vote by mail forms come in the mail
online voter registration
etc., etc., etc...

Why? Because we *value* the democratic process.

Even though our votes are only worth 3/5 of a vote compared to someone in say, WY.

[ThirdEye]

13. I'm happy to admit

that it's becoming crystal clear I was wrong about Hillary's (in)ability to convince voters that she was the better option. Fuck the electoral college.

Not only that, I'm also starting to believe misogyny did cost her the election. Though I believe the root of that misogyny is in religion.

[pnwmom]

18. Thank you. I hate that meme, for obvious reasons.

She inspired more votes than Obama in 2012, even though the voting rights act was dismantled i 2013, allowing millions of votes to be lost through suppression.

[duffyduff]

19. You nailed it. It truly was the sexism.

Unbelievable anybody has such dumb beliefs as the idea women have no business heading governments when they have been doing it for CENTURIES when you include monarchies.

It is just ludicrous.

[MyNameIsKhan]

16. In my polling station alameda county, long lines... abundant polling stations