A Los Angeles-based Justice Department official late Friday debunked a baseless claim of a discrepancy in the vote count of the city’s mayoral race that has circulated on social media.

As the vote-count totals crawl across Los Angeles and California, The California Post visited the county’s 144,000-square-foot ballot processing facility Thursday, which showed dozens of empty work stations.

The candidates are set for dozens of November midterm elections across California.

The U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles said Friday it had opened “multiple election fraud investigations” related to California's elections and sent a prosecutor to the county's vote-counting center.

Voters on Tuesday had their final say on their top two choices for the November general election ballot to represent them in the Assembly and state Senate.

Los Angeles County election workers are processing over 713,000 outstanding primary ballots, prompting unverified claims from Donald Trump and a sharp rebuttal from Gov. Gavin Newsom's office.

Semafor says Kalshi and Polymarket fund “hundreds” of influencers. In a report on Friday, Politico found that, according to transaction records it had reviewed, an executive at Polymarket sent at least $350,000 to influencers via a personal PayPal account throughout last year and in January of this year.

Los Angeles voters appeared poised Tuesday to approve measures related to cannabis business taxes and hotel tax collection rules for online travel companies while rejecting a separate proposal to increase the city’s hotel occupancy tax,