California is a joke state. It's unacceptable that they still have millions of ballots to count. They are reason #1 that we cant have a national popular vote. Can you imagine the country having to wait like this every 4 years?
1. Making it easier to vote is far more important than making sure all the votes can be counted quickly. The former is a fundamental democratic right and the latter is a convenience for the modern media cycle.
2. If we had a national popular vote we wouldn't have to wait like this every four years. Everyone knew on election night that Hillary would win the popular vote even without all these votes in. The networks would be able to call the election for Hillary on election night, just like the they were able to call California for Clinton even though all these millions of votes were still out.
3. Presumably if we had a true national popular vote (and not just the NPV Compact) it would be accompanied by a nationwide standardization over things like early voting and vote counting - otherwise it'd be kind of pointless to count all votes together if there wasn't a central authority managing/overseeing the count
