On the night of the elections in 2016 they declared 55 electoral votes to Hillary the very second that the polls closed. I submitted a paper ballot which was still in the cardboard box that I put it in hours before at the local polling station so I know my ballot wasn't counted. People just go "of course the votes went to Hillary...it's California" and nobody contended it. But the thing is I live in a place that has a very low percentage of white people but every time I go to vote the vast majority of voters are pissed off old white men. I'm pretty sure they're not voting Democrat.  The majority of registered voters in the entire state are registered as Democrat but (I used to be a Dem and I even said this back then) Republicans would generally walk barefoot across broken glass to cast their vote while Democrats usually only vote if it's super convenient. Like, if there was an app that they could just, like, vote for them, that would be super awesome. The Republicans that I know (there are more than you would guess in my predominately Latino neighborhood) always vote. The Democrats that I'm surrounded by love to scream and yell about every little thing but they openly brag about how they don't vote. So I have a real hard time accepting that our elected officials were actually elected.  We have been voting the rats out but they're just not interested in the election results. They make the result how they want to make it and we really can't do anything about it but leave the state. I'm seriously considering moving to Texas because my vote doesn't count in California but I know a lot of Democrats are moving to Texas to flip it blue. I can at least neutralize one of their votes and save Texas.