California’s long, complicated primary elections

California moved its primary up from June to March to try to be more influential in the Democratic primary, but it turns out that the drama isn’t about who will win. It’s about who can figure out how to vote.
Elections used to be simple. There was one Election Day. People mostly showed up to vote in person, with relatively few casting absentee ballots. A machine count of punch-card or ink-a-dot ballots produced nearly complete results on Election Night.
That was so boring. Today, Cal