{"id":341756,"date":"2026-06-01T18:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/341756\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T18:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:57:10","slug":"possible-election-vandalism-incidents-reported-in-dtla-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/341756\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible election vandalism incidents reported in DTLA, Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two separate acts of attempted election interference were reported in Los Angeles County over the weekend, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/content.lavote.gov\/docs\/rrcc\/news-releases\/isolated-ballot-damage-incident.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">L.A. County Registrar-Recorder\/County Clerk<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>On Sunday morning, election officials noticed that the voter center at Cesar E. Chavez Park had been vandalized; however, officials say action was taken immediately, and the incident did not disrupt voting operations.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, some ballots inside an Official Ballot Drop Box at the Department of Public Social Services-Civic Center in downtown Los Angeles were found with fire damage. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreliminary information indicates the incident was isolated and involved a small number of ballots, as it occurred between the most recent scheduled collection and the following morning&#8217;s retrieval,\u201d according to the County Registrar-Recorder\/County Clerk. <\/p>\n<p>A police report was filed in that case. <\/p>\n<p>Dean Logan, Registrar-Recorder\/County Clerk, said in the press release that the office would be working with law enforcement to \u201csafeguard the voting process.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any attempt to interfere with voting or election operations is taken seriously,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Voters who see any suspicious activity involving election materials, election facilities, or voting operations are urged to contact the County Registrar-Recorder\/County Clerk at (800) 815-2666. <\/p>\n<p>Follow KNX News 1070 AM<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KNXnews\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> |<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/knxnews\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> Facebook<\/a> |<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/knxnews\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> Instagram<\/a> |<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@knxnews\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> TikTok<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two separate acts of attempted election interference were reported in Los Angeles County over the weekend, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-341756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}