Spencer Pratt Calls Out ‘Rigged Election’ After ‘Crooked’ Late-Night Ballot Dump in LA Mayoral Race

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt has fallen to third place in the LA mayoral primary after a deeply suspicious late ballot dump overwhelmingly favored Democrat candidates, pushing City Councilwoman Nithya Raman into projected runoff position.

Incumbent Mayor Karen Bass has already secured a spot in the November runoff election. Under California’s nonpartisan system, the top two candidates advance unless one candidate wins outright with more than 50% of the vote.

The latest ballot update dealt a devastating blow to Pratt’s campaign. According to the newest vote totals, Raman gained more than 19,000 votes, Bass added nearly 16,000, while Pratt received fewer than 8,500 votes. Roughly 80% of the newly counted ballots went to the Democrat candidates.

With approximately 146,000 ballots still left to count, Pratt now trails Raman by more than 3,000 votes — a dramatic reversal after Raman had previously been behind by nearly 40,000 votes.

Pratt had dominated among mail-in ballots received by Election Day. However, ballots counted after Election Day have broken heavily for Democrats, raising fresh questions about the integrity and transparency of the counting process.

Where are these late ballots coming from? And why do they continue breaking so overwhelmingly in one direction?

ABC7 anchor Jory Rand acknowledged the possibility — though he described it as unlikely — that Pratt could still mount a comeback if “we see a batch in the last couple of days of those mail-in ballots that were heavy on Spencer Pratt.”

Despite that possibility, multiple election analysts are now projecting that Raman will advance to a November showdown against Bass.

Decision Desk HQ officially called the race Tuesday evening:

“Decision Desk HQ projects Nithya Raman wins the second of two spots in the CA Los Angeles Mayor Nonpartisan Primary.”