Laura J. Nelson is a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times, covering transportation and mobility. The beat has taken her to bus yards, freeway overpasses, subway construction sites, the bunker-like control center for L.A.’s nearly 4,500 traffic signals, and Elon Musk’s mysterious tunnel beneath the streets of sleepy Hawthorne, Calif. She was part of the team that won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news and the team that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for breaking news in 2020. She is a volunteer vice president of the California Scholastic Press Assn., a nonprofit workshop for high school journalists. She is from Kansas and joined The Times in 2012.
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Phil Washington has overseen a period of ambitious rail expansion in L.A. County.
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Sweeps must occur twice daily and any discovered ballots must be delivered by 5 p.m., according to the federal judge’s order, but there’s no evidence so far of widespread mail ballot losses.
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Judge said he may consider more Postal Service inspections for mail-in ballots in battleground states.
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Challenged mail-in ballots could play a deciding role in hotly contested states in the 2020 presidential election.
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The Postal Service admits that on-time performance for mail ballots dropped significantly in days leading to election.
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We’ll be tracking ballot rejection data during the 2020 election as they are made available across the country. We’d like to hear from you.
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Strict ballot deadlines and the unreliable performance of the Postal Service could disenfranchise thousands of voters
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Los Angeles resident Irma Monroy, 25, was arrested Monday in connection with the slaying of a Los Angeles County Metropolitan Authority worker.
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The fatal stabbing occurred Friday night at the 7th Street/Metro Center subway station in the financial district.