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It’ll finally be election day Tuesday in Southern California and around the nation, and it appears that voter interest in the mega-battle between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump may bring a record turnout to the polls.

There were already long lines with waits of up to two hours over the weekend in many of the locations where early voting was allowed in Los Angeles and Orange counties.

Long lines were again reported Sunday at the six polling places serving the 5.25 million voters registered in Los Angeles County, the state’s most-populous county, after voters were forced to wait for long periods Saturday.

A spokesman for the L.A. County Registrar-Recorder‘s office, Mike Sanchez, said people were able to join the linesat those locations until 4 p.m. Sunday.

“Everybody in line at 4 p.m. will still be able to cast a ballot,” Sanchez said.

At midday, the polling places were clogged with people who had already filled out their ballots, but were waiting in line to personally hand it in and collect their “I Voted” sticker.

He suggested that those persons skirt the line and place their completed ballots in the designated boxes.

“They can just get straight to the front, once their ballot is completed,” said Mike Sanchez, a media and communications representative with the Los Angeles Registrar-Record’s Office. “It’s an important message that we need to get out.”

Long lines were reported in North Hollywood, West Covina, Culver City, Downey and Torrance, right after polling locations opened at 8 a.m. Sunday.

The only location opened to the public in Los Angeles County Monday will be from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. at the Registrar-Recorder’s Office, at 12400 Imperial Highway in Norwalk.

In Orange County, early ballots were being filled out at Anaheim, Costa Mesa, Irvine Civic Center, UC Irvine, Mission Viejo, Santa Ana and Westminster.

Voters were also able to stay in their cars and hand ballots to workers at the Irvine Civic Center, Mission Viejo and Santa Ana locations.

There are 5.25 million registered voters in Los Angeles, 51 percent registered Democrat and 18.6 percent Republican. In Orange County, there are 2 million registered voters, with 37.8 percent Republican and 34 percent Democrats.

–City News Service

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