Police say vandalism discovered at a voting center in downtown Long Beach on Sunday morning does not appear to be connected to the election.<\/p>\n
Long Beach Police Department spokesperson Allison Gallagher said the vandalism amounted to \u201ca small section\u201d of window that had been shattered at a community center being used as a voting location in Cesar E. Chavez Park.<\/p>\n
The minor vandalism got widespread attention<\/a> on Monday when the Los Angeles County Registrar\u2019s Office \u2014 which manages local elections \u2014 sent out a statement<\/a> assuring voters that \u201cvoting operations were not disrupted.\u201d In the same statement, they mentioned a separate incident in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday morning where a \u201climited number\u201d of mail-in ballots had been burned inside a ballot drop box.<\/p>\n Officials said the damage appeared to be \u201cisolated\u201d and involved a \u201csmall number of ballots.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAny attempt to vandalize election facilities, damage voting materials, or interfere with the voting process is unacceptable,\u201d LA County Board Chair and First District Supervisor Hilda Solis said in a statement. \u201cWe take these incidents seriously and will continue working with election officials and law enforcement partners to protect voters and uphold the integrity of our elections.\u201d<\/p>\n Police said they did not discover any nexus between the vandalism in Long Beach and the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say vandalism discovered at a voting center in downtown Long Beach on Sunday morning does not appear…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-342550","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\/342550","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=342550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}