Data-quirk fuels unfounded claims of LA mayoral fraud

A viral claim that LA’s mayoral vote tallies showed massive fraud stemmed from a timing glitch in the AP data feed: two updates were issued within a minute, first adding votes for Bass and Raman and then for Pratt. County officials confirmed there was no batch with zero Pratt votes, and experts described it as a reporting artifact rather than fraud, underscoring how quickly data-speed can mislead without careful verification.