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Combined with more than half a million votes that the registrar has received through the mail, that would already represent a 13% turnout for L.A. County, if all the votes cast so far are counted.
The new system has its advantages, says Kim Alexander of the California Voter Foundation, a voter outreach and research nonprofit. She said there have been bumps as the new system has been rolled out, but called the vote centers “a good fail safe for a place like Los Angeles where we have millions of voters.”
There are nearly a thousand voting centers to choose from, but many longtime polling places won’t be open this year.
I caught up with Alexander while she was driving between vote centers in Watts and Culver City to see how the new system was working.
She said she saw lines growing this morning, which could signal long waits tomorrow.