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Huge Early Voting Numbers Just Keep On Growing
Nearly 2.9 million early ballots have been cast in Los Angeles County. In Orange County, the figure surpassed one million over the weekend. And nearly 600,000 early votes have arrived in Riverside County.
Those huge numbers are raising hopes that 2020 could be a high turnout election in Southern California — a region that often gets knocked for not-so-great levels of political participation. But the actual ballot counting takes time, and we won't have the full picture for weeks.
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