After complaints from community advocates, the LA County Registrar has moved quickly to add voting centers in Chinatown and Koreatown where there were previously none in place for the June 7 election.
are needed and the community groups are trying to find more people to work the polls. Compensation is $100/day.Vote centers were introduced in 2020 as a way to increase civic participation. Voters can cast ballots at any vote center across L.A. County for up to 11 days before Election Day. They can also mail in their ballot — the most popular option — or deposit it at an official drop-off site.
The registrar’s office locates vote centers by “service area” rather than by neighborhoods. But community leaders emphasized the importance of having a vote center close by for residents who may not want to leave their neighborhoods out of inconvenience or concerns about safety.
Logan said he recognized that “the kind of intersections and the traffic patterns add to people's comfort level of where they're used to going.”Josie Huang reports on the intersection of being Asian and American and the impact of those growing communities in Southern California.
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