Less than five minutes until polls close in the great state of California.

Let's bring in Ali Valshi at the board to look at how we expect the counting to go

and what people should understand about the way these elections are being conducted in California tonight.

So the great thing about California is they make it easy to vote.

It's very easy to vote.

Voter participation is high. People can get ballots. Everybody gets mailed one. You don't need any excuses. And generally people vote in advance. This race has been thrown into some upheaval. So you see people like the ones that Jacob were talking to who haven't really thought this through. You really have to study. It's hard to vote in California. It's easy to vote, but it's hard to make decisions. A few things that are different from places at other states.

All candidates, regardless of party, appear on the same ballot. So those people in the line are

Republicans and Democrats. Everybody appears on the same ballot, whatever party you're on.

So you're voting for the top two people to advance. That means

it could be two Republicans or two Democrats or two independents. The top two vote getters

advance to the general election. So in some cases, you will see two Democrats advancing in the

same district. Could be two Democrats advancing in the race for governor, which means that you'll

end up with

one for sure at the end, or you may get a combination of a Republican and a Democrat. In some

instances in California, you'll also get two Democrats. Eighty-nine percent of California's

population in the 2024 primary was cast before election day. We don't have current

data on this, but we believe the number this time to be lower because Eric Swalwell dropped out

of the race. It cast a lot of voters into some confusion about who their next choice was going to be.

And as a result, a number of people who would have cast their ballot early held on to it. Again, you saw Jacob talking to them in the line. So this is important to

remember. And then this is the most important thing, Rachel, I'm going to get you a gallon of

orange juice to get through tonight because in the 2024 primary, only 52% of voters

were counted, of total votes were counted by the time the sun

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