As of Monday, more than 191,000 ballots had been added for a cumulative total of 1.8 million.
Police chief Robert Luna is slowly increasing his lead in his bid to unseat incumbent Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva. Updated returns released Monday show Luna with nearly 60% of the vote, compared to 40% for Villanueva. Luna had a lead of 324,837 votes, up from 259,184 when the last update was released on Saturday.
The last four updates after Election Day have all resulted in gains for Bass, who took the lead in the vote count on Friday and has expanded it since.Sarah Leonard Sheahan, Bass' communications director, said in a statement after Thursday's results that the campaign was confident Bass would eventually prevail.
"As predicted, this is a close race," Caruso said on Thursday. "There are hundreds of thousands of votes to count and as expected we are going to see different results each time. I continue to be cautiously optimistic about these numbers and look forward to the next series of results in the coming weeks."
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