Ballots Burned, Vote Center Vandalized Day Before Los Angeles Mayoral Race

Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder officials stated Sunday that two incidents of attempted election interference may have occurred in Long Beach and elsewhere before the June 2 primary election.

The county registrar-recorder said the burned votes were found during the normal collection of ballots at an official ballot drop box at the Department of Public Social Services-Civic Center in Los Angeles.

“Staff identified a limited number of vote-by-mail ballots that appeared to have sustained fire-related damage,” the county registrar-recorder said.

The fire occurred somewhere between the last ballot pickup Saturday and the first ballot pickup Sunday and included a “small number” of ballots, officials said.