Don't tell Californians their votes do not matter. Early voting draws long lines in LA County
It's the first weekend of early voting for a half-dozen sites across Los Angeles County — and polling stations are already packed.
A line of voters wrapped around the block outside of the North Hollywood Regional Library Saturday. A similar line stretched down the street an out of West Los Angeles College in Culver City.
Brenda Duran is with the L.A. County Registrar's Office. She says this doesn't mean crowds will swarm polling places on November 8.
"On Election Day, we do have about 4,000 polling places. And these are just five sites in L.A. County that we opened, so there will be a lot more polling places open on that day," she tells KPCC.
Roughly 5.2 million people have registered to vote in L.A. County. About 2.3 million vote-by-mail ballots have been sent out countywide.
"A lot of people tend to find that when they can fill out their ballot at home, they can take as much time as they want. And then also it's convenient if they want to just drop it off in the mail on their way to work," Duran says.
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