Thursday, October 31

Los Angeles County opens 119 early voting centers for California primaries

Starting this weekend, Los Angeles County opened the 119 early voting centers to receive the votes of the residents for the March 5 presidential primaries in California.

The county’s thousands of voters can go to cast their vote at any of the early voting centers, that offer attention every day from 10:00 am to 7:00 pmand Los Angeles County residents can find out the location of the centers at this link.

Starting March 2, another 525 early voting centers will openwhile on Tuesday, March 5, all sites will remain open from 7:00 am to 8:00 pm

In this electoral process, Los Angeles County has 822 candidates, 175 positions and 16 local measuresincluding five for the California Senate, 17 for Congress and 24 for the Assembly.

They are also chosen three seats on the Board of Supervisorsdozens of judges on the Superior Court and dozens of positions for local school and city boards.

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Depending on where they live, county residents will have opportunity to vote for your community issues.

All voters will be able to cast their vote for the candidate for the Presidency of the United Statesand the majority for the Senate, the House of Representatives, the California Assembly, the Board of Supervisors, the judges of the Superior Court and the District Attorney.

Also for the City Council and local school boards, local measures and Proposition 1, a state ballot measure to fund mental health treatment and housing for the homeless.

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“It’s been pretty quiet all day, but that was to be expected. “I think as time goes on, especially next weekend and certainly Monday and Tuesday, there will be a lot more people,” Mark Jones, 69, of Manhattan Beach, who He works as an election worker at the voting center at Dockweiler Youth Center.

Voters of the immigrant community in Los Angeles County cast their ballots in-person on Ballot Marking Devices at a participating Flex Voting Center set for only one day at the offices of Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, CHIRLA, in Los Angeles, Saturday, Nov. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Residents who came to cast their vote found few people at the voting centers.
Credit: Damian Dovarganes | AP

The quiet start at the early voting centers was completely different to the chaos that occurred during the March 3, 2020 presidential primary electionwhen malfunctioning electronic tablets used to register voters created lines of voters who had to wait for hours.

“I think that Voting is extremely important and is a civic duty. Anything you can do to help make this easier for other people is worth it,” added Jones, who is serving as a poll worker for the second time.

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For each election process, Los Angeles County hires approximately about 10,000 workers to provide care in face-to-face centers and to provide assistance in the ballot process.

This year, it was reported that some 800 workers will work in the new county Ballot Processing Centerinstalled in a 144,000 square foot warehouse in the City of Industry, where all ballots will be verified, counted and stored.

For the June 7, 2022 primary election, the county faced difficulties recruiting enough poll workers. However, Registrar/Registrar Dean Logan stated Tuesday during the center’s grand opening that it is not expected to pose a major challenge for this year’s election cycle.

“We have been fortunate thanks to our partnershipsand I think that by having a facility like this, where employees feel safe and protected, we have been able to attract that talent, but it is something that we monitor very closely,” he said.

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the county is still hiring more workersparticularly people who speak Thai, Korean, Gujarati and Khmer, Logan said.

County voters can request their respective ballot at early voting centers in any of the 19 languages ​​served by the registrar/secretary.

To learn more about how to collaborate as an election worker, you can consult this link.

If you want to know more about voting options, you can go to this link.

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