Still 700,000-plus ballots left to process in L.A. County, election officials estimate 4%

By Karen Garcia59%

6/4/2026, 1:27:07 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Anchoring Bias, and Negativity Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 29.8% saturation with 57 hits. Analysis detected 293 faulty-reasoning hits from 191 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 18.5% and a BS Rank of 4% (19,680 of 20,444 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 96.30% of the article peer group.

Los Angeles County elections officials continue to chip away at ballots received for Tuesday's primary election but still have hundreds of thousands left to count. 
Just since election night, there have been 77,521 ballots processed countywide, L.A. 
County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean Logan said in a statement Wednesday evening. 
That brings the total election results count to nearly 1.4 million, which represents roughly 23.7% of registered voters. 
As of 5:30 p.m. 
Wednesday, county election official estimated there were 713,180 ballots left to process, broken down as such: 
Vote-by-mail ballots: 700,000 
Conditional voter registration ballots: 11,340 
Provisional ballots: 1,840 
Included in the estimate of outstanding vote-by-mail ballots are ballots postmarked by election day, those received from the United States Postal Service on Wednesday, as well as those returned at official drop boxes and vote centers on election day. 
The estimate is subject to change as ballots continue to be scanned, prepared and processed, according to local officials. 
It also does not include additional vote-by-mail ballots that were postmarked on election day and will arrive at the processing center through next Tuesday. 
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191 words analyzed.

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1speaker5.8%attributed speech180writer words
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Dean Logan

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11 attributed words100% of attributed speech72% writer coverage
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Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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