California Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton is not mincing words about the state’s election system.

He called it a “total joke” and vowed to bring the corruption to an end, promising to scrap the mail-in voting scam that Democrats have turned into their favorite election hustle.

Speaking to supporters after yet another round of delayed vote counting, Hilton made it clear he has had enough of California’s “rigged” process.

He pointed out that California’s endless counting period, sometimes stretching for weeks, would be laughable if it were not so serious.

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“India counts over 640 million votes in a day,” he said.

“California cannot count less than 10 million votes in a month. Thanks to the Democrats in charge, we have become a national and an international laughing stock.”

Hilton explained that even with this mess, he is confident his campaign will land in the top two after all votes are eventually counted.

But he made it clear that change is desperately needed.

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“This shambles is absolutely shameful for our state,” he said.

“Change is coming.”

The former Fox News host has built his campaign on restoring accountability, and election integrity is now front and center.

He pointed to Ventura County’s decision to delay updates for a full week after election day as a perfect example of the dysfunction.

“And then, when you dig into what is actually happening here, you see the reason,” Hilton said, arguing that Democrats rely on drawn-out processes to manipulate results in their favor.

Hilton laid out a simple three step plan to clean up California’s elections.

First, every mail in ballot must be received by election day, not days or weeks after.

Second, ballots should only be mailed to voters who request them, ending the mass distribution to every name on the faulty voter rolls.

And third, ballots should be counted prior to election day, as is done in Florida, so Californians are not left waiting for weeks.

“It should not take a month to find out who won a race,” Hilton said, calling the current backlog “completely ridiculous.”

He added that California has no excuse for lagging so far behind other states that manage to run secure and transparent elections.

Hilton also appeared on Fox News with Laura Ingraham to discuss new revelations from USPS whistleblowers.

The allegations claim that California is “indiscriminately counting mail-in ballots without verifying the date they were sent.”

Hilton did not hold back.

“It’s insane,” he told Ingraham.

“This election system is just another monument to their uselessness, another version of high-speed rail.”

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As of Saturday morning, more than three million ballots remained uncounted across California.

Former Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra was projected to advance to the runoff, while Hilton’s lead over Democrat Tom Steyer continued to narrow to about 340,000 votes.

The slow drip of newly counted ballots, most of them arriving after election day, is once again benefiting Democrats statewide.

In Los Angeles, Democratic City Councilwoman Nithya Raman surged after a late-night vote dump, while hundreds of thousands of ballots remain yet to be tallied.

The situation has only fueled growing suspicion that California’s counting process is designed to secure Democrat victories through endless ballot additions.

Meanwhile, federal law enforcement is starting to take notice.

First Assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli announced Friday that his office is conducting “multiple election fraud investigations” with the FBI, alongside a “comprehensive audit” of California’s voter rolls in coordination with the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.

US Attorney Robert Renner was also spotted in person at LA County’s ballot processing center, asking pointed questions about procedures.

The presence of federal investigators suggests there may finally be consequences for California’s chronic election fiascos.

Hilton’s criticism taps into widespread frustration among Californians who have watched the state’s elections spiral into chaos since the adoption of universal mail-in voting.

The system was marketed as a convenience but quickly evolved into a loophole factory for fraud, incompetence, and manipulation.

Many conservative voters see mail-in voting as the heart of a deliberate scheme to tilt outcomes.

Ballots arrive mysteriously, signatures go unchecked, and counts continue for weeks until Democrats inch ahead.

It is a familiar story, and Hilton’s promise to clean it up is resonating with voters tired of being ignored.

Despite the slow count, Hilton remains defiant.

“There is nothing we are seeing that changes our assessment that we will be in the top two once all the votes are counted,” he said confidently.

His campaign is betting that Californians are ready for an end to bureaucratic decay and liberal control.

For years, California’s elections have symbolized the failures of progressive policies.

What should be a simple, transparent process has become a never-ending circus managed by incompetents.

Steve Hilton’s bold stand against the mail-in voting chaos may mark the beginning of a new fight for accountability in the Golden State.

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