According to election conspiracists, the Los Angeles mayoral primary vote count currently underway is compromised because they say one batch of votes mysteriously recorded no ballots cast for the Republican frontrunner Spencer Pratt.
This, in their minds, was a statistical impossibility, even in one of the bluest cities of perhaps the bluest state in the U.S. But what they were referring to was one online update of a vote count based off data fed from the Associated Press’s (AP) election tracker. What many of them didn’t report is that an update one minute later recorded thousands of votes for Pratt, but zero votes for the Democrat frontrunners Mayor Karen Bass and councilmember Nithya Raman.
The AP explained the situation as a “lag” in its updates. Voter fraud enthusiasts misread that lag as evidence of an election steal – a baseless allegation that is currently getting pushed by President Donald Trump as part of his broader agenda to undermine voter confidence and take control of elections.
But several Republicans have disputed that the lag error is evidence of cheating, including Trump’s own handpicked U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, who posted late Friday night that the fraud claims are false.
“There was a claim circulating on social media about an election night ballot update at the Los Angeles Registrar of Voters where one candidate received zero votes,” wrote Essayli on X. “We reviewed official county records. The claim is false. Each candidate received votes in every...
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