At 11:30 p.m. last night, only some absentee ballots in the City of Los Angeles election had been counted. The rest of the ballots were supposed to be taken by helicopter to the City Clerk’s office, but fog grounded the copters and, at presstime, the ballots were traveling by truck.
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