"California has moved toward mail-in balloting and built a system that encourages turnout but takes
weeks to fully count. On election night, when Hillary Clinton was declared the winner of the state's primary, just 3.5 million ballots had been counted in the Democratic race and just 1.5 million had been counted in the basically uncontested GOP race. But according to Alex Padilla, California's Democratic secretary of state, as many as 8.9 million ballots were cast. Millions of provisional ballots and absentee ballots, which could have been postmarked any time on Election Day, remained outstanding in a race decided by about 440,000 votes.
That's sparked hope among some Sanders supporters that the primary could still be won — a result that wouldn't take away Clinton's delegate majority, but would strike a final blow against a biased media. Sanders himself seemed to encourage the sentiment at his only rally in D.C., telling supporters that "we are standing after having won 22 states, and the results have not yet come in from California." WP
That's sparked hope among some Sanders supporters that the primary could still be won — a result that wouldn't take away Clinton's delegate majority, but would strike a final blow against a biased media. Sanders himself seemed to encourage the sentiment at his only rally in D.C., telling supporters that "we are standing after having won 22 states, and the results have not yet come in from California." WP
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