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Midterm election: Nearly 20% of L.A. County voters have already cast ballots

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Two days before voting closes, more than 17% of registered voters in Los Angeles County have already cast their ballots for the midterm election, the vast majority voting by mail, according to the L.A. County registrar-recorder’s office.

More than 70,000 people in Los Angeles County have voted in person — about a third of whom voted Sunday — and over 900,000 have voted by mail, as of counts late Sunday. Voting in Tuesday’s election remains open Monday and Tuesday, with voting centers closing Tuesday at 8 p.m., and mail-in ballots requiring postmarks of Tuesday or earlier.

The registrar-recorder did not immediately respond to questions about updated tallies Monday morning.

The county opened up 500 additional voting locations this weekend, operating a total of 640, all of which will remain open through Tuesday.

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