LA Times reporter Kevin Rector and mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt

Never count out the fake news to defend outright fraud and lawlessness by the left.

Last Tuesday, on election night, Spencer Pratt was comfortably in second place in the Los Angeles Mayor’s race. Pratt dominated with early mail-in ballots that arrived before Election Day. Pratt had further extended his lead by more than 12,000 votes when the in-person results came in.

With roughly 50 percent of the expected vote counted early Wednesday morning, Bass led with approximately 36-37 percent while Pratt pulled in a strong 29.2 percent.

Progressive City Councilmember Nithya Raman trailed far behind in third at 21.4 percent.

But in California Election Day has expanded to Election month. Democrats flip elections away from Republican candidates after all of the ballots come in that were discovered AFTER Election Day.

In one ballot drop this week Spencer Pratt did not receive a single vote. The votes all went to the two far left Marxists he is running against!

in one batch incumbent Karen Bass added more than twelve thousand votes to her total, Nithya Raman added nearly ten thousand votes to her total, but Spencer Pratt added none at all. Other candidates continued to accumulate support in the same tranche.

Of course, this is statistically impossible.

Leave it to The Los Angeles Times to jump in and defend the election corruption!

Journalist Kevin Rector clears this all up by declaring this a glitch!

Kevin Rector: “It was the result of a lag in an automated collection of the data in which there was one data collection that captured votes in a single batch of votes for Bass and Raman, and then about 1 minute later, the collection of the rest of that same batch of votes — Folks I spoke to also said there is no fraud. But again, there was no batch of votes without any Pratt votes. There was sort of a 1-minute variation between the upload of Bass and Raman votes and Pratt votes on some media websites.

Officials and others who have reviewed the data say that is not any proof of fraud. There was no fraud.”

Via Wall Street Apes:

Here we go, the Los Angeles Times is admitting that yes, tens of thousands of mail in ballots did get processed for only Mayor Karen Bass and Nithya Raman but it was “a glitch”

They say the system just “glitched” for a minute and didn’t process any ballots for Spencer Pratt but… pic.twitter.com/MswgINgu4l

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) June 7, 2026

First Assistant US Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli, who announced on Friday that his office is conducting “multiple election fraud investigations” with the FBI, announced a new dedicated email address for submitting tips on election fraud following the damning Saturday night ballot dump. “Email tips to: [email protected],” he wrote.

If you have witnessed potential election fraud, we want to hear from you.

People have been contacting our office wanting to provide information. We have established a dedicated email address for this purpose.

Email tips to: [email protected]

Please do not send…

— F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli (@USAttyEssayli) June 7, 2026

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