Key facts
- The California Post visited the LA County's 144,000-square-foot ballot processing facility.
- Dozens of work stations were observed to be empty.
- Vote totals were slowly being released.
- LA County's election budget is $336 million.
The California Post visited the Los Angeles County's 144,000-square-foot ballot processing facility on Thursday. The facility showed dozens of empty work stations, a scene that appeared to be at odds with the mounting pressure to process hundreds of thousands of remaining ballots. County officials had announced Wednesday night that vote totals were crawling across Los Angeles and California. Mail-in ballots and security measures contribute to counting delays in California's close contests, an election expert says, and last-minute voters in the governor's race may slow things down further. It could take weeks or even a month before election winners are known in California and Los Angeles.