California sought to raise voter turnout by passing vote by mail, which election officials say slows the ballot counting process.

Population growth began to slow in the late 1990s, thanks largely to out-migration of Southern California aerospace workers and their families as defense spending dried up after the breakup of the Soviet Union.

THE BUZZ: AI DIPLOMACY — Global tech leaders who gathered for a historic artificial intelligence safety summit in San Francisco this week are keeping close tabs on California as Washington looks poised to scrap guardrails for the emerging technology under President-elect Donald Trump.

Ex-Obama fundraiser and Silicon Valley tech pioneer Allison Huynh spoke to Fox News Digital about the recent progressive losses in California after the election.

Lake County elections officials are tired of the rush to count ballots, defending their history of being the last in California and possibly the nation to tally votes.

Democrat Derek Tran has taken the lead over GOP Rep. Michelle Steel in California's 45th Congressional District with 6% of the vote still uncounted two weeks after the election.

Complaints and conspiracy theories about California election results are back. A nonpartisan group hopes its vote tracker will help.

More than 11 days after polls closed around the nation and Donald Trump was declared president-elect of the United States, California is still moving methodically through roughly 800,000 uncounted ballots that are holding up final tallies in several contests.

Several key California election results are still undecided. A group is tracking close races to bring more transparency to the vote count.

The closest House race in the nation is in Southern California, where Representative Michelle Steel is trailing her challenger, Derek Tran, by a tiny margin after nearly 310,000 votes have been counted.

Republican Scott Baugh is conceding his race against Democrat Dave Min in a Southern California U.S. House district.