Paul Ryan calls California election results bizarre because all the votes were counted...

[cynatnite]

“In Wisconsin, we knew the next day. Scott Walker, my friend, I was sad to see him lose, but we accepted the results on Wednesday," Ryan said. In California, “their system is bizarre; I still don’t completely understand it. There are a lot of races there we should have won.”

When pressed about his California comments, Ryan said it seemed “bizarre” and “strange” that Democrats would win all seven competitive House races in California. Democrats ousted GOP Reps. Mimi Walters, Dana Rohrabacher, Jeff Denham and Steve Knight and won seats held by retiring GOP Reps. Ed Royce and Darrell Issa. GOP Rep. David Valadao is trailing Democrat TJ Cox, but the race is too close to call.

“The way the absentee-ballot program used to work, and the way it works now, it seems pretty loosey goose,” Ryan said. “When you have candidates who win the absentee ballot vote and then lose three weeks later because of provisionals, that’s really bizarre. I just think that’s a very, very strange outcome.”

California Secretary of State Alex Padilla, a Democrat who oversees elections there, aggressively pushed back on Ryan's complaints.

“It is bizarre that Paul Ryan cannot grasp basic voting rights protections,” Padilla said in a statement to The Hill. “It shouldn’t 'defy logic' that elections officials are meticulous in counting every eligible ballot. California works to ensure every ballot is counted properly and every ballot is accounted for. In the most populous state in the nation — and the state with the largest number of registered voters — this takes time."

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/418880-ryan-casts-doubt-on-bizarre-california-election-results

[Garrett78]

1. Padilla is exactly right, of course. It's also bizarre that Ryan doesn't understand...

...the difference between California and Wisconsin.

[demosincebirth]

6. Yea, about thirty million residents.

[Garrett78]

7. Different demographics, more blue, etc.

[Blue_true]

9. 34 million more.

Every election in California is about 7 elections for Wisconsin.

[gratuitous]

2. In Ryan's world

You count the ballots until you get a result you like, then stop. Ryan also thinks the Falcons won Super Bowl 51.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. it's easier to call the winner if you cheat

Ryan may be used to knowing the winner beforehand, since Repugs like to distort elections in so many states. Counting is just a formal confirmation of the cheat in those places.

[DBoon]

4. a "very, very strange outcome"???

The Republican Party has spent the last 10 years pissing on California and they think it is a "very, very strange outcome" that they lose elections?

[liberalhistorian]

8. Ryan has the typical Ayn Randian thinking

that their perspective is the only true way to go, and they simply cannot conceive of a different way of thinking nor can they grasp that there may be others who don't share their view.

In Ryan's warped, greedy mind, his actions against social security and the rest of the safety net were to "save" the system and not destroy it, and people who think otherwise are just ungrateful and selfish. Thank God he's gone come January.

[haele]

5. In GOP world, you only exist when you show up and vote for them.

You actually need to be on the machine that flips your vote for a Democratic Candidate to the Republican to be a real voter.

Absentee ballots must all be fake or voter fraud, or something like that. Unless they would have flipped the vote for the GOP.

Haele