{"id":372147,"date":"2026-06-23T23:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/372147\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T23:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:16:09","slug":"california-lawmaker-warns-faster-vote-count-would-disenfranchise-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/372147\/","title":{"rendered":"California Lawmaker Warns Faster Vote Count Would Disenfranchise Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether states can count mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day. The decision could dramatically reshape how elections are administered in California and nationwide. Meanwhile, California\u2019s slow vote-counting process continues to draw national criticism. Marisa is joined by Assemblymember Gail Pellerin, who spent nearly three decades as Santa Cruz County\u2019s chief election official.<\/p>\n<p>Check out \u2060\u2060\u2060<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/newsletters\/political-breakdown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2060Political Breakdown\u2019s weekly newsletter\u2060<\/a>\u2060\u2060\u2060, delivered straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide whether states can count mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-372147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}