WATCH: “A Total Joke” – Gubernatorial Candidate Steve Hilton GOES OFF on California’s Shady Elections, Vows to End Mail-In Voting Scam
June 6, 2026

Republican California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton on Friday went off on California’s rigged election system and the “completely outrageous” weeks or month-long counting process. 

“First of all, however long it takes, we are confident that we’re going to be in the top two at the end of this process. There is nothing that we’re seeing that changes our assessment that we will be in the top two once all the votes are counted,” he said. “And what does that mean? That means change is coming!”

Hilton continued, “This shambles is absolutely shameful for our state. India counts over 640 million votes in a day. California cannot count less than 10 million votes in a month. Thanks to the Democrats in charge of our state, we have become a national and an international laughing stock.”

“And then, when you dig into what is actually happening here, you see the reason,” he added, highlighting Ventura County, which won’t have another update on vote totals until Tuesday, June 9, one whole week after election day.

Hilton then laid out his plan to ensure the integrity of elections and eliminate the unchecked mail-in voting with three common-sense reforms if elected governor.

“Mail-in ballots must arrive by election day if they’re going to be counted,” he said.

“Mail-in ballots can only be offered by request, as it used to be. We shouldn’t send out mail-in ballots to everyone on the voter rolls when we know the voter rolls are completely wrong.”

And, he said, “We should be pre-counting these votes, just like Florida does, so it doesn’t end up being this mad backlog that takes a month or so to count. It’s completely ridiculous.”

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Hilton also sounded the alarm on Thursday evening, telling Fox’s Laura Ingraham that, according to USPS whistleblowers, California is indiscriminately counting mail-in ballots without verifying the date they were sent. “It’s insane. This election system that they’ve created here is just another monument to their uselessness, another version of high-speed rail,” Hilton said as roughly 4 million ballots remained uncounted in his race.

Here’s the latest on California.

Over three million ballots remain to be counted across the state as of Saturday morning. Xavier Becerra has been projected to advance to a runoff election with the second-place candidate. Hilton, who was in first place, has fallen to second, and his lead over Democrat Tom Steyer is shrinking, with roughly 340,000 votes separating the two.

Election results showing candidates Xavier Becerra, Steve Hilton, and Tom Steyer with their respective vote counts and percentages, highlighting Becerra's lead.
California Governor election results via NBC – updated at 10 pm ET on Friday, June 5, 2026

As The Gateway Pundit reported, a Friday evening vote dump gave Democratic City Councilwoman Nithya Raman substantial gains, putting her in a position to overtake Spencer Pratt. Roughly 251,000 ballots remain to be counted in the city of Los Angeles.

California is primarily counting the late-arriving mail-in votes, mail-in ballots that were received AFTER election day, which are expected to heavily favor Democratic candidates.

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

Assistant US Attorney Robert Renner was also seen observing the ballot processing center in LA County on Friday and reportedly asking questions about the process.

JUST IN: US Attorney Observes Los Angeles Election Center as Feds Launch Multiple Voter Fraud Investigations (VIDEO)

 

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Author: Jordan Conradson