The processing center features glass walls and cameras that livestream the process.
As California vote counts go, this year should be a snoozer. The ballot has only one question, on whether to authorize the legislature to redraw the state’s congressional districts, and polls have been forecasting an easy passage for months.
In the sprawling facility where Los Angeles County processes its ballots, however, the floor was alive with watchful eyes on Tuesday — the result of an announcement that the Trump administration had dispatched monitors from the Department of Justice to observe the vote count.
The public has long been welcome to watch the ballot counting process. But the Justice Department’s announcement spurred fresh interest in observing the count among political activists and public officials, as well as among Democrats hoping to monitor the Republican monitors.
By midafternoon, at least one Democratic member of Congress from the Los Angeles area, Representative Laura Fr
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