{"id":13471,"date":"2026-06-09T22:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=13471"},"modified":"2026-06-09T22:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T22:33:17","slug":"a-week-after-election-day-xavier-becerra-and-steve-hilton-address-ballot-counting-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=13471","title":{"rendered":"A week after Election Day, Xavier Becerra and Steve Hilton address ballot-counting concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the midst of a weekday lunch rush, Xavier Becerra walked through a bustling food hall in Los Angeles, shaking hands with diners and thanking them, in English and Spanish, for their support.<\/p>

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A few hours earlier, and approximately 14 miles southeast of the Figueroa Corridor, Steve Hilton stood outside the L.A. County registrar\u2019s administrative office in Norwalk.<\/p>\n

Hilton wasn\u2019t ready to officially declare victory yet since the Associated Press hadn\u2019t called the race at the time of his press conference, but the Republican told the gaggle of reporters that he was \u201cconfident\u201d he\u2019d join Becerra in the fall\u2019s runoff election.<\/p>\n

It was a tale of two gubernatorial candidates in the Los Angeles area on Tuesday, June 9, just one week after voting officially ended.<\/p>\n

One already breathing a sigh of relief to have made it through an uncertain gubernatorial primary for Democrats.<\/p>\n

The other talking about getting back on the campaign trail \u2013 even though he isn\u2019t \u201cpopping the champagne yet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both, though, were peppered with questions about California\u2019s election system, as criticism over the length of time it takes to declare a winner has ramped up, and conspiracy theories and allegations about election fraud have abounded.<\/p>\n

Flanked by Gloria Romero, a fellow Republican who is running for lieutenant governor, and more than two dozen supporters, Hilton made a pitch Tuesday morning for voter ID reform, which has qualified for the November ballot.<\/p>

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A simple and immediate way to solve California\u2019s slow vote-counting process, Hilton said, would be to implement voter ID.<\/p>\n