Here in Los Angeles, we still don't know who our new mayor will be. As of earlier today, Karen Bass has 52.15% of the vote and Rick Caruso has 47.85% — but whatever news media might make a projection and "call the race" hasn't done so yet, perhaps for good reason.
For what it's worth, I voted for Bass but this is not a race I care about as much as some others. The mayor of Los Angeles, whoever it is, doesn't have enough power to drastically change things…at least not as much as mayors of other big cities have. And we'll probably never know this but I am curious though to what extent people did or did not vote for Mr. Caruso, a very wealthy real estate developer, because his profession made them think he might be kinda like Donald Trump.
Anyway, the L.A. Times just ran this explainer about why the vote is taking so long to count. It might be of interest to folks who think there's cheating afoot whenever Candidate A takes an early lead in the counting and then suddenly, in the wee small hours of the morning, Candidate B overtakes Candidate A.