California's vote count was painfully slow. Can this proposal speed it up for November?

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Set us as preferred In the wake of a painfully slow June vote count in California that led to unfounded claims of election irregularities, a voter watchdog group Monday recommended the state and counties carry out a number of voting reforms that could speed up tabulations.Not all of them, however, are likely to happen before November.The California Voter Foundation, a nonprofit group with a mission to improve the election process for voters, issued a report pushing for several changes to the ballot signature-curing process: The state, it said, should shorten the curing timeline from 22 to 14 days, expand voter access to and awareness of electronic ballot signature curing and have the state collect and publish comprehensive signature-curing data.The group also urged the state to enable most close races to be called by the Friday after election day and let counties, in extremely close contests, prioritize counting those ballots first.

The state, it said, should also provide local election offices with additional funding to enable them to speed up ballot processing, improve the public reporting of unofficial results with clearer terminology and real-time updates, and inform voters they can help by returning vote-by-mail ballots earlier or voting in person.“California doesn’t have to choose between an accessible, secure election system and timely results,” Kim Alexander, president of the California Voter Foundation, said in a statement.“Our research shows we can combat the long vote count while preserving — and in some cases strengthening — the protections that make California elections accessible and trustworthy.” California The slog of counting ballots in California continued Friday as some races hang in the ballots.

Here is where we stand:Alexander told The Times that two of the California Voter Foundation’s 1...